A comprehensive phylogenomic platform for exploring the angiosperm tree of life

WJ Baker, P Bailey, V Barber, A Barker… - Systematic …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The tree of life is the fundamental biological roadmap for navigating the evolution and
properties of life on Earth, and yet remains largely unknown. Even angiosperms (flowering …

Phylogenomics and the rise of the angiosperms

AR Zuntini, T Carruthers, O Maurin, PC Bailey… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Angiosperms are the cornerstone of most terrestrial ecosystems and human livelihoods,. A
robust understanding of angiosperm evolution is required to explain their rise to ecological …

Nuclear phylogenomics of angiosperms and insights into their relationships and evolution

G Zhang, H Ma - Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Angiosperms (flowering plants) are by far the most diverse land plant group with over
300,000 species. The sudden appearance of diverse angiosperms in the fossil record was …

A plastid phylogenomic framework for the palm family (Arecaceae)

G Yao, YQ Zhang, C Barrett, B Xue, S Bellot, WJ Baker… - BMC biology, 2023 - Springer
Background Over the past decade, phylogenomics has greatly advanced our knowledge of
angiosperm evolution. However, phylogenomic studies of large angiosperm families with …

Gesneriads, a source of resurrection and double-tolerant species: proposal of new desiccation-and freezing-tolerant plants and their physiological adaptations

A Legardón, JI García-Plazaola - Biology, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary In the current scenario of climate change, plants need to overcome a great
amplitude of temperatures and increasingly common droughts in the very same space …

Exploring Angiosperms353: An open, community toolkit for collaborative phylogenomic research on flowering plants

WJ Baker, S Dodsworth, F Forest, SW Graham… - 2021 - ttu-ir.tdl.org
The unveiling of the angiosperm (flowering plant) tree of life over the past three decades has
been one of the great success stories of modern plant biology. Flowering plants underpin …

Phylogenomics reveals extreme gene tree discordance in a lineage of dominant trees: hybridization, introgression, and incomplete lineage sorting blur deep …

TGB McLay, RM Fowler, PS Fahey, DJ Murphy… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Eucalypts are a large and ecologically important group of plants on the Australian continent,
and understanding their evolution is important in understanding evolution of the unique …

Taxon‐specific or universal? Using target capture to study the evolutionary history of rapid radiations

G Yardeni, J Viruel, M Paris, J Hess… - Molecular Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Target capture has emerged as an important tool for phylogenetics and population genetics
in nonmodel taxa. Whereas developing taxon‐specific capture probes requires sustained …

How to Tackle Phylogenetic Discordance in Recent and Rapidly Radiating Groups? Developing a Workflow Using Loricaria (Asteraceae) as an Example

M Kandziora, P Sklenář, F Kolář… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
A major challenge in phylogenetics and-genomics is to resolve young rapidly radiating
groups. The fast succession of species increases the probability of incomplete lineage …

A new approach using targeted sequence capture for phylogenomic studies across Cactaceae

S Acha, LC Majure - Genes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Relationships within the major clades of Cactaceae are relatively well known based on DNA
sequence data mostly from the chloroplast genome. Nevertheless, some nodes along the …