Inferring the genome-wide history of grasses.
Inferring the genome-wide history of grasses.
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推断草类的全基因组历史。
DOI:
10.1016/j.molp.2022.03.008
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发表时间:
2022
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影响因子:
27.5
通讯作者:
Bianconi ME
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作者:
Bianconi ME
Establishing the relationships among organisms is fundamental to numerous fields in biology, including systematics, evolutionary biology, and epidemiology. These relationships are represented via phylogenetic trees, which depict the history of genes and capture both speciation and gene duplication events. When multiple genes are analyzed simultaneously, the history of the genomes and the species that bear them can be reconstructed, as well as episodes of genetic exchanges among lineages. The genomics revolution and analytical advancements have led to large-scale genome-wide phylogenies resolving the history of an increasing number of taxonomic groups and revealing in some cases complex histories of hybridization. However, large groups of plants remain to be analyzed in depth.The grass family (Poaceae) includes around 11 000 species and is arguably the most ecologically and economically important group of plants. Rice, wheat, and maize alone account for more than half of global calorie intake, and grasses cover over 20% of the Earth’s landmass. Over the past 30 years, our understanding of the relationships among grasses gradually improved through analyses of individual markers from the plastid and nuclear genomes (Grass Phylogeny Working Group, 2001; Grass Phylogeny Working Group II, 2012) and, more recently, complete plastomes (Saarela et al., 2018). The plastid does not necessarily match the history of the nuclear genome (Figure 1), and analyses of nuclear datasets have revealed incongruencies in many subgroups of grasses (Fisher et al., 2016; Washburn et al., 2017), but the family-wide nuclear history remained to be critically assessed. Recently in Molecular Plant, Huang et al.(2022) tackled this problem and provided a large-scale nuclear phylogeny of the grasses.