Molecular evolution of key metabolic genes during transitions to C4 and CAM photosynthesis

Introgression and repeated co-option facilitated the recurrent emergence of C4 photosynthesis among close relatives

(2017) Luke T. Dunning et al.   EVOLUTION

Optional use of CAM photosynthesis in two C 4 species, Portulaca cyclophylla and Portulaca digyna

(2017) Joseph A.M. Holtum et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Facultative CAM photosynthesis (crassulacean acid metabolism) in four species of Calandrinia, ephemeral succulents of arid Australia

(2017) Joseph A. M. Holtum et al.   PHOTOSYNTHESIS RESEARCH

Fast Coalescent-Based Computation of Local Branch Support from Quartet Frequencies

(2016) Erfan Sayyari et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Phylogeny and generic delimitation in Molluginaceae, new pigment data in Caryophyllales, and the new family Corbichoniaceae

(2016) Mats Thulin et al.   TAXON

Widespread adaptive evolution during repeated evolutionary radiations in New World lupins

(2016) Bruno Nevado et al.   Nature Communications

Dissecting Molecular Evolution in the Highly Diverse Plant Clade Caryophyllales Using Transcriptome Sequencing

(2015) Ya Yang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Genetic Enablers Underlying the Clustered Evolutionary Origins of C4 Photosynthesis in Angiosperms

(2015) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic marker development for target enrichment from transcriptome and genome skim data: the pipeline and its application in southern AfricanOxalis(Oxalidaceae)

(2015) Roswitha Schmickl et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Evolutionary insights into host–pathogen interactions from mammalian sequence data

(2015) Manuela Sironi et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Crassulacean acid metabolism: a continuous or discrete trait?

(2015) Klaus Winter et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ensembl Genomes 2016: more genomes, more complexity

(2015) Paul Julian Kersey et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Using phylogenomics to resolve mega-families: An example from Compositae

(2015) Jennifer R. Mandel et al.   Journal of Systematics and Evolution

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

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Shared origins of a key enzyme during the evolution of C4 and CAM metabolism

(2014) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Multiple isoforms of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase in the Orchidaceae (subtribe Oncidiinae): implications for the evolution of crassulacean acid metabolism

(2014) Katia Silvera et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Positive selection of Kranz and non-Kranz C4 phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase amino acids in Suaedoideae (Chenopodiaceae)

(2014) Josh J. Rosnow et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Facultative crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) plants: powerful tools for unravelling the functional elements of CAM photosynthesis

(2014) K. Winter et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

Phylotranscriptomic analysis of the origin and early diversification of land plants

(2014) Norman J. Wickett et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Data access for the 1,000 Plants (1KP) project

(2014) Naim Matasci et al.   GigaScience

Repeated Origin of Three-Dimensional Leaf Venation Releases Constraints on the Evolution of Succulence in Plants

(2013) R. Matthew Ogburn et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Phenotypic landscape inference reveals multiple evolutionary paths to C4 photosynthesis

(2013) Ben P Williams et al.   eLife

Photorespiration and the Evolution of C4Photosynthesis

(2012) Rowan F. Sage et al.   Annual Review of Plant Biology

Inferring duplications, losses, transfers and incomplete lineage sorting with nonbinary species trees

(2012) Maureen Stolzer et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Adaptive Evolution of C4 Photosynthesis through Recurrent Lateral Gene Transfer

(2012) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Angiosperm Responses to a Low-CO2 World: CAM and C4 Photosynthesis as Parallel Evolutionary Trajectories

(2012) Erika J. Edwards et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PLANT SCIENCES

Anatomical enablers and the evolution of C4photosynthesis in grasses

(2012) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Anchored Hybrid Enrichment for Massively High-Throughput Phylogenomics

(2012) Alan R. Lemmon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Ultraconserved Elements Anchor Thousands of Genetic Markers Spanning Multiple Evolutionary Timescales

(2012) Brant C. Faircloth et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Detecting Individual Sites Subject to Episodic Diversifying Selection

(2012) Ben Murrell et al.   PLoS Genetics

Navigating the tip of the genomic iceberg: Next-generation sequencing for plant systematics

(2011) Shannon C. K. Straub et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The C4 plant lineages of planet Earth

(2011) R. F. Sage et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY

A Random Effects Branch-Site Model for Detecting Episodic Diversifying Selection

(2011) Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Applications of next-generation sequencing to phylogeography and phylogenetics

(2011) John E. McCormack et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Ancestral polyploidy in seed plants and angiosperms

(2011) Yuannian Jiao et al.   NATURE

New grass phylogeny resolves deep evolutionary relationships and discovers C4 origins

(2011)   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Molecular phylogenetics of suborder Cactineae (Caryophyllales), including insights into photosynthetic diversification and historical biogeography

(2010) Gilberto Ocampo et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

COMPLEX EVOLUTIONARY TRANSITIONS AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF C3-C4 INTERMEDIATE FORMS OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS IN MOLLUGINACEAE

(2010) Pascal-Antoine Christin et al.   EVOLUTION

Statistical Properties of the Branch-Site Test of Positive Selection

(2010) Z. Yang et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Gene Conversion Among Paralogs Results in Moderate False Detection of Positive Selection Using Likelihood Methods

(2009) Claudio Casola et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

Phylogenomics of C4 Photosynthesis in Sedges (Cyperaceae): Multiple Appearances and Genetic Convergence

(2009) G. Besnard et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Reliabilities of identifying positive selection by the branch-site and the site-prediction methods

(2009) M. Nozawa et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Gene tree discordance, phylogenetic inference and the multispecies coalescent

(2009) James H. Degnan et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Broad phylogenomic sampling improves resolution of the animal tree of life

(2008) Casey W. Dunn et al.   NATURE