Phylogenomics and the flowering plant tree of life

C Guo, Y Luo, LM Gao, TS Yi, HT Li… - Journal of Integrative …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The advances accelerated by next‐generation sequencing and long‐read sequencing
technologies continue to provide an impetus for plant phylogenetic study. In the past …

An overview of the taxonomy, phylogeny, and typification of nectriaceous fungi in Cosmospora, Acremonium, Fusarium, Stilbella, and Volutella

T Gräfenhan, HJ Schroers, HI Nirenberg… - Studies in …, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
A comprehensive phylogenetic reassessment of the ascomycete genus Cosmospora
(Hypocreales, Nectriaceae) is undertaken using fresh isolates and historical strains …

Genome evolution and diversity of wild and cultivated potatoes

D Tang, Y Jia, J Zhang, H Li, L Cheng, P Wang, Z Bao… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the world's most important non-cereal food crop, and the
vast majority of commercially grown cultivars are highly heterozygous tetraploids. Advances …

Cancer risk across mammals

O Vincze, F Colchero, JF Lemaître, DA Conde… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer is a ubiquitous disease of metazoans, predicted to disproportionately affect larger,
long-lived organisms owing to their greater number of cell divisions, and thus increased …

Producing polished prokaryotic pangenomes with the Panaroo pipeline

G Tonkin-Hill, N MacAlasdair, C Ruis, A Weimann… - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Population-level comparisons of prokaryotic genomes must take into account the substantial
differences in gene content resulting from horizontal gene transfer, gene duplication and …

A year of genomic surveillance reveals how the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic unfolded in Africa

E Wilkinson, M Giovanetti, H Tegally, JE San… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The progression of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
pandemic in Africa has so far been heterogeneous, and the full impact is not yet well …

Phylogenomic analyses highlight innovation and introgression in the continental radiations of Fagaceae across the Northern Hemisphere

BF Zhou, S Yuan, AA Crowl, YY Liang, Y Shi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Northern Hemisphere forests changed drastically in the early Eocene with the diversification
of the oak family (Fagaceae). Cooling climates over the next 20 million years fostered the …

Asgard archaea illuminate the origin of eukaryotic cellular complexity

K Zaremba-Niedzwiedzka, EF Caceres, JH Saw… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The origin and cellular complexity of eukaryotes represent a major enigma in biology.
Current data support scenarios in which an archaeal host cell and an alphaproteobacterial …

Genome sequences of five Sitopsis species of Aegilops and the origin of polyploid wheat B subgenome

LF Li, ZB Zhang, ZH Wang, N Li, Y Sha, XF Wang… - Molecular plant, 2022 - cell.com
Common wheat (Triticum aestivum, BBAADD) is a major staple food crop worldwide. The
diploid progenitors of the A and D subgenomes have been unequivocally identified; that of …

Multispecies coalescent delimits structure, not species

J Sukumaran, LL Knowles - Proceedings of the National …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The multispecies coalescent model underlies many approaches used for species
delimitation. In previous work assessing the performance of species delimitation under this …