Slow but not low: genomic comparisons reveal slower evolutionary rate and higher dN/dS in conifers compared to angiosperms

QTL mapping in white spruce: gene maps and genomic regions underlying adaptive traits across pedigrees, years and environments

(2011) Betty Pelgas et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Transcriptome mining, functional characterization, and phylogeny of a large terpene synthase gene family in spruce (Picea spp.)

(2011) Christopher I Keeling et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Whole-genome sequencing of multiple Arabidopsis thaliana populations

(2011) Jun Cao et al.   NATURE GENETICS

A White Spruce Gene Catalog for Conifer Genome Analyses

(2011) Philippe Rigault et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Screening for genes specific to coniferous species

(2011) T. Ujino-Ihara et al.   TREE PHYSIOLOGY

The age and diversification of the angiosperms re-revisited

(2010) Charles D. Bell et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Comparative genomics reveals conservative evolution of the xylem transcriptome in vascular plants

(2010) Xinguo Li et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The contribution of recombination to heterozygosity differs among plant evolutionary lineages and life-forms

(2010) Juan P Jaramillo-Correa et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Pinus taeda genome is characterized by diverse and highly diverged repetitive sequences

(2010) Allen Kovach et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Genome-wide investigation reveals high evolutionary rates in annual model plants

(2010) Jia-Xing Yue et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

THE LOCAL-CLOCK PERMUTATION TEST: A SIMPLE TEST TO COMPARE RATES OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION ON PHYLOGENETIC TREES

(2010) Robert Lanfear   EVOLUTION

Patterns of Population Structure and Environmental Associations to Aridity Across the Range of Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda L., Pinaceae)

(2010) A. J. Eckert et al.   GENETICS

Association Mapping of Quantitative Disease Resistance in a Natural Population of Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda L.)

(2010) T. Quesada et al.   GENETICS

Comparative Chloroplast Genomics Reveals the Evolution of Pinaceae Genera and Subfamilies

(2010) Ching-Ping Lin et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Effective Population Size Is Positively Correlated with Levels of Adaptive Divergence among Annual Sunflowers

(2010) J. L. Strasburg et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A Likelihood Method for Detecting Trait-Dependent Shifts in the Rate of Molecular Evolution

(2010) Itay Mayrose et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Rate of Establishment of Complex Adaptations

(2010) M. Lynch et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A Generation Time Effect on the Rate of Molecular Evolution in Invertebrates

(2010) Jessica A. Thomas et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Genome Wide Analyses Reveal Little Evidence for Adaptive Evolution in Many Plant Species

(2010) T. I. Gossmann et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Genome-Wide Evidence for Efficient Positive and Purifying Selection in Capsella grandiflora, a Plant Species with a Large Effective Population Size

(2010) T. Slotte et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Widespread, ecologically relevant genetic markers developed from association mapping of climate-related traits in Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis)

(2010) Jason A. Holliday et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Babelomics: an integrative platform for the analysis of transcriptomics, proteomics and genomic data with advanced functional profiling

(2010) Ignacio Medina et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

An integrated genomic, proteomic and biochemical analysis of (+)-3-carene biosynthesis in Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) genotypes that are resistant or susceptible to white pine weevil

(2010) Dawn E. Hall et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Evolution of Disease Response Genes in Loblolly Pine: Insights from Candidate Genes

(2010) Elhan S. Ersoz et al.   PLoS One

Mutation rate is linked to diversification in birds

(2010) R. Lanfear et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Dated molecular phylogenies indicate a Miocene origin for Arabidopsis thaliana

(2010) M. A. Beilstein et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Watching the clock: Studying variation in rates of molecular evolution between species

(2010) Robert Lanfear et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Why there is more to protein evolution than protein function: splicing, nucleosomes and dual-coding sequence

(2009) Tobias Warnecke et al.   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

Genomic mutation rates: what high-throughput methods can tell us

(2009) Koodali T. Nishant et al.   BIOESSAYS

Effective population size and the rate and pattern of nucleotide substitutions

(2009) M. Woolfit   Biology Letters

Correlates of substitution rate variation in mammalian protein-coding sequences

(2009) John J Welch et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

BioMart – biological queries made easy

(2009) Damian Smedley et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Targeted isolation, sequence assembly and characterization of two white spruce (Picea glauca) BAC clones for terpenoid synthase and cytochrome P450 genes involved in conifer defence reveal insights into a conifer genome

(2009) Björn Hamberger et al.   BMC PLANT BIOLOGY

Multilocus Patterns of Nucleotide Diversity and Divergence Reveal Positive Selection at Candidate Genes Related to Cold Hardiness in Coastal Douglas Fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii)

(2009) A. J. Eckert et al.   GENETICS

New insights on the speciation history and nucleotide diversity of three boreal spruce species and a Tertiary relict

(2009) J Chen et al.   HEREDITY

Local adaptation at the range peripheries of Sitka spruce

(2009) M. MIMURA et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Natural Selection on Synonymous and Nonsynonymous Mutations Shapes Patterns of Polymorphism in Populus tremula

(2009) P. K. Ingvarsson   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Selection on Nuclear Genes in a Pinus Phylogeny

(2009) A.E. Palmé et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

DIALIGN-TX: greedy and progressive approaches for segment-based multiple sequence alignment

(2008) Amarendran R Subramanian et al.   Algorithms for Molecular Biology

A conifer genomics resource of 200,000 spruce (Picea spp.) ESTs and 6,464 high-quality, sequence-finished full-length cDNAs for Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis)

(2008) Steven G Ralph et al.   BMC GENOMICS

The UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot knowledgebase and its Plant Proteome Annotation Program

(2008) Michel Schneider et al.   Journal of Proteomics

Patterns of Divergence among Conifer ESTs and Polymorphism in Pinus sylvestris Identify Putative Selective Sweeps

(2008) A. E. Palme et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Selection on Amino Acid Substitutions in Arabidopsis

(2008) J. P. Foxe et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Relative rates of synonymous substitutions in the mitochondrial, chloroplast and nuclear genomes of seed plants

(2008) G DROUIN et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Evolutionary significance of a flat-leaved Pinus in Vietnamese rainforest

(2008) Tim J. Brodribb et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Identification of conserved core xylem gene sets: conifer cDNA microarray development, transcript profiling and computational analyses

(2008) Nathalie Pavy et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Rates of Molecular Evolution Are Linked to Life History in Flowering Plants

(2008) S. A. Smith et al.   SCIENCE