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As demonstrated by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the emergence of novel viral strains with increased transmission rates poses a serious threat to global health. Statistical models of genome sequence evolution may provide a critical tool for …
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Read PDF<h4>Background</h4>Elatostema, one of the largest genera in Urticaceae, comprises approximately 570 species. The taxonomic delimitation of Elatostema and its closely related genera, Elatostematoides and Procris and the infrageneric classification of Elatostema, have historically been challenging. …
Read PDFNon-avian reptiles comprise a large proportion of amniote vertebrate diversity, with squamate reptiles-lizards and snakes-recently overtaking birds as the most species-rich tetrapod radiation. Despite displaying an extraordinary diversity of phenotypic and genomic traits, genomic resources …
Read PDFIn phylogenomics, incongruences between gene trees, resulting from both artifactual and biological reasons, can decrease the signal-to-noise ratio and complicate species tree inference. The amount of data handled today in classical phylogenomic analyses precludes manual …
Read PDF[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1293707.].
Read PDFMembers of the genus <i>Heliconia</i> L. (Heliconiaceae) have evolved complex interactions with both insect herbivores and hummingbird pollinators in tropical forests and secondary growth where they are abundant and diverse. Many of these same species …
Read PDFInnovative strategies are essential to enhance crop resilience against drought and heat stress intensified by climate change. Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) is a specialized photosynthetic pathway that improves water-use efficiency (WUE) by shifting CO<sub>2</sub> fixation …
Read PDF<h4>Background and aims</h4>Invasive alien plant species pose a global challenge, and their impact is amplified by globalization and the accelerating pace of climate change. In regions with mild climates, drought-tolerant invasive plants showing broad environmental …
Read PDFTrichonephila clavata L. Koch, 1878, an East Asian species renowned for its long-distance ballooning dispersal, has recently drawn attention as an invasive species following its introduction into the southeastern United States. However, few population genetic …
Read PDF<h4>Background</h4>Stomatopoda possess extremely unique biological characteristics and evolutionary process; however, their phylogenetic relationships remain controversial. To avoid gene tree conflicts caused by a small number of genetic markers in previous phylogenetic studies of Stomatopoda, this …
Read PDF<h4>Premise</h4>Leveraging DNA markers, particularly single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), in parentage analysis, sib-ship reconstruction, and genomic relatedness analysis can enhance plant breeding efficiency. However, the limited availability of genomic information, confined to the most commonly used species, …
Read PDF<h4>Background</h4>Panax, including medicinally important species such as P. ginseng, P. quinquefolius, and P. notoginseng, exhibits diverse pharmacological properties. However, morphological traits are lost and DNA is often degraded during processing, complicating species identification. As photosynthetic …
Read PDF<i>Hypericum</i> is the largest genus in Hypericaceae and is widely recognized for its medicinal importance. To investigate the evolutionary dynamics of the genus, we assembled and annotated the first mitochondrial genomes of <i>H. ascyron</i> (411,519 …
Read PDFBioinformatics, the interdisciplinary field that combines biology, computer science, and data analysis, plays a pivotal role in advancing our understanding of life sciences. In the African context, where the diversity of biological resources and healthcare …
Read PDF<h4>Motivation</h4>Generating phylogenomic trees from the genomic data is essential in understanding biological systems. Each step of this complex process has received extensive attention and has been significantly streamlined over the years. Given the public availability …
Read PDFAnalyzing genomic variants in large datasets composed of short-read sequencing data is a process that requires multiple steps and computational tools, which makes it a complicated task that is difficult to reproduce across projects and …
Read PDFSpecies differentiation and the appearance of novel diversity on Earth is a major issue to understand the past and future of microbial evolution. Herein, we propose the analysis of a singular evolutive example, the case …
Read PDFAfrican swine fever virus (ASFV) is endemic to African wild pigs (<i>Phacochoerus</i> and <i>Potamochoerus</i>), in which viral infection is asymptomatic, and <i>Ornithodoros</i> soft ticks. However, ASFV causes a lethal disease in Eurasian domestic pigs (<i>Sus …
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