The evolutionary origins of the cat attractant nepetalactone in catnip

A chromosomal-scale genome assembly of Tectona grandis reveals the importance of tandem gene duplication and enables discovery of genes in natural product biosynthetic pathways

(2019) Dongyan Zhao et al.   GigaScience

Interactive Tree Of Life (iTOL) v4: recent updates and new developments

(2019) Ivica Letunic et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Repeated evolution of cytochrome P450-mediated spiroketal steroid biosynthesis in plants

(2019) Bastien Christ et al.   Nature Communications

Character evolution and missing (morphological) data across Asteridae

(2018) Gregory W. Stull et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Phylogenomic Mining of the Mints Reveals Multiple Mechanisms Contributing to the Evolution of Chemical Diversity in Lamiaceae

(2018) Benoît Boachon et al.   Molecular Plant

Evolution of chalcone isomerase from a noncatalytic ancestor

(2018) Miriam Kaltenbach et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Uncoupled activation and cyclization in catmint reductive terpenoid biosynthesis

(2018) Benjamin R. Lichman et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Connecting genome structural variation with complex traits in crop plants

(2018) Iulian Gabur et al.   THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS

Inverted stereocontrol of iridoid synthase in snapdragon

(2017) Hajo Kries et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

UFBoot2: Improving the Ultrafast Bootstrap Approximation

(2017) Diep Thi Hoang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Draft Genome Sequence of Mentha longifolia and Development of Resources for Mint Cultivar Improvement

(2017) Kelly J. Vining et al.   Molecular Plant

ModelFinder: fast model selection for accurate phylogenetic estimates

(2017) Subha Kalyaanamoorthy et al.   NATURE METHODS

Two new subfamilies in Lamiaceae

(2017) BO LI et al.   Phytotaxa

Estimating the total number of phosphoproteins and phosphorylation sites in eukaryotic proteomes

(2017) Panayotis Vlastaridis et al.   GigaScience

Identification of iridoid synthases from Nepeta species: Iridoid cyclization does not determine nepetalactone stereochemistry

(2017) Nathaniel H. Sherden et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY

Phylogenetic relationships, character evolution and biogeographic diversification of Pogostemon s.l. (Lamiaceae)

(2016) Gang Yao et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Analysis of the Genome Sequence of the Medicinal Plant Salvia miltiorrhiza

(2016) Haibin Xu et al.   Molecular Plant

Plant metabolic clusters - from genetics to genomics

(2016) Hans-Wilhelm Nützmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Evolutionary trajectory of phytoalexin biosynthetic gene clusters in rice

(2016) Koji Miyamoto et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Convergent evolution of caffeine in plants by co-option of exapted ancestral enzymes

(2016) Ruiqi Huang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolutionary switches between two serine codon sets are driven by selection

(2016) Igor B. Rogozin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A large-scale chloroplast phylogeny of the Lamiaceae sheds new light on its subfamilial classification

(2016) Bo Li et al.   Scientific Reports

BUSCO: assessing genome assembly and annotation completeness with single-copy orthologs

(2015) Felipe A. Simão et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Progesterone 5β-reductases/iridoid synthases (PRISE): gatekeeper role of highly conserved phenylalanines in substrate preference and trapping is supported by molecular dynamics simulations

(2015) Jan Petersen et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE & DYNAMICS

Something old, something new: Conserved enzymes and the evolution of novelty in plant specialized metabolism

(2015) Gaurav Moghe et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

De novo production of the plant-derived alkaloid strictosidine in yeast

(2015) Stephanie Brown et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Biosynthesis of monoterpene scent compounds in roses

(2015) J.-L. Magnard et al.   SCIENCE

Codon Optimization OnLine (COOL): a web-based multi-objective optimization platform for synthetic gene design

(2014) Ju Xin Chin et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies

(2014) Lam-Tung Nguyen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Pilon: An Integrated Tool for Comprehensive Microbial Variant Detection and Genome Assembly Improvement

(2014) Bruce J. Walker et al.   PLoS One

The seco-iridoid pathway from Catharanthus roseus

(2014) Karel Miettinen et al.   Nature Communications

NextClip: an analysis and read preparation tool for Nextera Long Mate Pair libraries

(2013) Richard M. Leggett et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Evolution of a Complex Locus for Terpene Biosynthesis in Solanum

(2013) Y. Matsuba et al.   PLANT CELL

MAKER-P: A Tool Kit for the Rapid Creation, Management, and Quality Control of Plant Genome Annotations

(2013) M. S. Campbell et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

TopHat2: accurate alignment of transcriptomes in the presence of insertions, deletions and gene fusions

(2013) Daehwan Kim et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

treePL: divergence time estimation using penalized likelihood for large phylogenies

(2012) Stephen A. Smith et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

An alternative route to cyclic terpenes by reductive cyclization in iridoid biosynthesis

(2012) Fernando Geu-Flores et al.   NATURE

Differential gene and transcript expression analysis of RNA-seq experiments with TopHat and Cufflinks

(2012) Cole Trapnell et al.   Nature Protocols

FastML: a web server for probabilistic reconstruction of ancestral sequences

(2012) H. Ashkenazy et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

MCScanX: a toolkit for detection and evolutionary analysis of gene synteny and collinearity

(2012) Y. Wang et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Mind the Gap: Upgrading Genomes with Pacific Biosciences RS Long-Read Sequencing Technology

(2012) Adam C. English et al.   PLoS One

Chemical Constituents and Biological Activities of Nepeta Species

(2011) Carmen Formisano et al.   CHEMISTRY & BIODIVERSITY

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Coping with toxic plant compounds – The insect’s perspective on iridoid glycosides and cardenolides

(2011) Susanne Dobler et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY

Patent Literature on Mosquito Repellent Inventions which Contain Plant Essential Oils - A Review

(2011) Adrian Pohlit et al.   PLANTA MEDICA

Attraction of Chrysoperla carnea complex and Chrysopa spp. lacewings (Neuroptera: Chrysopidae) to aphid sex pheromone components and a synthetic blend of floral compounds in Hungary

(2010) Sándor Koczor et al.   PEST MANAGEMENT SCIENCE

Highly conserved progesterone 5β-reductase genes (P5βR) from 5β-cardenolide-free and 5β-cardenolide-producing angiosperms

(2010) Peter Bauer et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY

Repellent activity of catmint, Nepeta cataria, and iridoid nepetalactone isomers against Afro-tropical mosquitoes, ixodid ticks and red poultry mites

(2010) Michael A. Birkett et al.   PHYTOCHEMISTRY

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

(2010) Morgan N. Price et al.   PLoS One

High-quality draft assemblies of mammalian genomes from massively parallel sequence data

(2010) S. Gnerre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

ABySS: A parallel assembler for short read sequence data

(2009) J. T. Simpson et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Rapid radiation of Impatiens (Balsaminaceae) during Pliocene and Pleistocene: Result of a global climate change

(2009) Steven B. Janssens et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Mutation-Selection Models of Codon Substitution and Their Use to Estimate Selective Strengths on Codon Usage

(2008) Z. Yang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Structural characterization of iridoid glucosides by ultra-performance liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization quadrupole time-of-flight tandem mass spectrometry

(2008) Cun-man Li et al.   RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

Phylogeny-Aware Gap Placement Prevents Errors in Sequence Alignment and Evolutionary Analysis

(2008) A. Loytynoja et al.   SCIENCE