Archive for March, 2016
Polyploidy and the proteome
Wednesday, March 30th, 2016The antiquity of Cyclocarya paliurus (Juglandaceae) provides new insights into the evolution of relict plants in subtropical China since the late Early Miocene.
Wednesday, March 30th, 2016Are Microsatellite Fragment Lengths Useful for Population-Level Studies? The Case of Polygala lewtonii (Polygalaceae)
Friday, March 4th, 2016Germain-Aubrey, C. C., C. Nelson, D. E. Soltis, P. S. Soltis, and M. A. Gitzendanner. 2016. Are Microsatellite Fragment Lengths Useful for Population-Level Studies? The Case of Polygala lewtonii (Polygalaceae). Applications in Plant Sciences 4:1500115. [View on publisher’s site]
Phylogenomic and structural analyses of 18 complete plastomes across nearly all families of early-diverging eudicots, including an angiosperm-wide analysis of IR gene content evolution
Friday, March 4th, 2016Sun, Y., M. J. Moore, S. Zhang, P. S. Soltis, D. E. Soltis, T. Zhao, A. Meng, X. Li, J. Li, and H. Wang. 2016. Phylogenomic and structural analyses of 18 complete plastomes across nearly all families of early-diverging eudicots, including an angiosperm-wide analysis of IR gene content evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 96:93–101. [View on publisher’s site]
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Floral flexibility: Diversification of the flower
Friday, March 4th, 2016
Figure 1: Flowers of Magnolia champaca (Magnoliaceae) showing the spiral arrangement of floral organs typical of many basal angiosperm lineages.: Wang et al.7 provide new insights into the transition from the spiral to whorled arrangement of floral organs. Photograph courtesy of Walter Judd.
Soltis, D. E. 2016. Floral flexibility: Diversification of the flower. Nature Plants 2:15211. [View at publisher’s site] [View on ResearchGate]
Abstract
The antiquity of Cyclocarya paliurus (Juglandaceae) provides new insights into the evolution of relict plants in subtropical China since the late Early Miocene
Friday, March 4th, 2016
(a) Geographical distribution of the sampled populations and six clades; (b) the median-joining network of the 18 chloroplast haplotypes of Cyclocarya paliurus. Circle sizes are proportional to the haplotype frequencies. Black dots indicate hypothetical haplotypes. Solid bars indicate the number of mutational steps. See Kou et al. 2016 for details.
Kou, Y., S. Cheng, S. Tian, B. Li, D. Fan, Y. Chen, D. E. Soltis, P. S. Soltis, and Z. Zhang. 2016. The antiquity of Cyclocarya paliurus (Juglandaceae) provides new insights into the evolution of relict plants in subtropical China since the late Early Miocene. J. Biogeogr. 43:351–360. [View on publisher’s site]