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BACKGROUND: The Polygonaceae family comprises approximately 1,200 species of pharmacological, economic, and ecological importance, including medicinal genera such as Rheum, Polygonum, and Fagopyrum, which produce bioactive anthraquinones, stilbenes, and flavonoids. Despite their therapeutic importance, comprehensive …
Read PDFInference of phylogenetic networks is of increasing interest in the genomic era. However, the extent to which phylogenetic networks are identifiable from various types of data remains poorly understood, despite its crucial role in justifying …
Read PDFInsects represent the most diverse animal group, yet previous phylogenetic analyses based on morphological and molecular data have failed to agree on the evolutionary relationships of early insects and their six-legged relatives (together constituting the …
Read PDF<h4>Background</h4>Triploid bananas are almost sterile. However, we succeeded in harvesting seeds from two edible triploid banana individuals (Genotype: ABB) in our conservation repository where various wild diploid bananas were also grown. The resulting rare offspring …
Read PDFBACKGROUND: The genus Conioselinum Fisch. ex Hoffm. (Apiaceae) presents long-standing taxonomic challenges due to poorly resolved infrageneric relationships and significant morphological convergence with related genera such as Ligusticum s.l. Although integrating plastomes and nrDNA data …
Read PDFWe report here 17 human coronavirus NL63 genomes from France. They were obtained from residues of respiratory samples collected from patients for diagnostics in southern France, using an in-house multiplex PCR amplification system followed by …
Read PDFSpatial patterning in multicellular organisms is commonly explained by Turing-type reaction-diffusion systems, but the maturation of diffusible inhibitors remains poorly understood. In the cyanobacterium <i>Nostoc</i> PCC 7120, nitrogen deprivation triggers a pattern of nitrogen-fixing heterocysts …
Read PDF<h4>Background</h4>Thraustochytrids are unicellular heterotrophic protists within the Stramenopiles group, widely distributed across marine ecosystems. Understanding the mechanisms underlying their metabolic ecotype evolution is pivotal for revealing how these organisms drive the marine carbon cycle and …
Read PDFIn phylogenomics, regions of low alignment reliability and high noise are typically trimmed from multiple sequence alignments before they are used in phylogenetic inference. I introduce a new trimming tool, PhyIN, which deletes regions in …
Read PDFInonotus hispidus, a fungal species morphologically closely related to the medicinal genus Sanghuang,has garned considerable attention due to its potential health-prompting benefits. This study presents the whole-genome sequence of I. hispidus ZA-14, a monokaryotic strain …
Read PDFBacterial wilt disease, caused by <i>Ralstonia solanacearum</i> species complex phylotype I, severely affects the cultivation of solanaceous vegetables (tomato, eggplant, etc.) in Japan. In this study, we report the complete genome sequences of 96 strains …
Read PDF<h4>Objective</h4>Recent spoligotyping results in the island nation of Indonesia had revealed the existence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex lineage 3 (MTBC L3) or Central Asian (CAS) strains. In this work, whole-genome sequencing (WGS) - based methods …
Read PDFThe tree of life is one of the most important organizing principles in biology. Updates and revisions are historically derived from improved data capture, increasingly refined models of evolution and expanded taxon sampling. Tracing the …
Read PDFBuruli ulcer in southeastern Australia is a zoonosis caused by infection with <i>Mycobacterium ulcerans</i>. Australian native possums are a major wildlife reservoir, and infected possums shed <i>M. ulcerans</i> in their excreta, with mosquitoes being the …
Read PDFASTRAL is a powerful and widely used tool for species tree inference, known for its computational speed and robustness under incomplete lineage sorting. The method has often been used as an initial step in species …
Read PDFMicrobial biotechnology plays a critical role in addressing environmental challenges and promoting sustainability. Here, we report the complete genome sequencing of Paenibacillus sp. strain 210, previously isolated from Brazilian crude oil and known for its …
Read PDFSignificant advances have been made in resolving the tree of life, but many nodes remain debated. The last two decades saw the emergence of mixture models, which proved particularly useful to account for across-site compositional …
Read PDFHibiscus L. (Hibisceae, Malvoideae, Malvaceae) is globally distributed and valued for its ornamental, agricultural, and medicinal significance, yet its taxonomic problems remain unresolved. Here, we de novo assembled 17 complete chloroplast (cp.) genomes representing 16 …
Read PDFMalaria, a tropical disease caused by Plasmodium and transmitted by Anopheles, remains a public health concern in Brazil. While most cases occur in the Amazon, transmission persists in the Atlantic Forest, where Anopheles mosquitoes of …
Read PDFThe accurate characterization of species diversity is a vital prerequisite for ecological and evolutionary research, as well as conservation. Thus, it is necessary to generate robust hypotheses of species limits based on the inference of …
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