Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

The genomic basis of the plant island syndrome in Darwin’s giant daisies

  • José Cerca,
  • Bent Petersen,
  • José Miguel Lazaro-Guevara,
  • Angel Rivera-Colón,
  • Siri Birkeland,
  • Joel Vizueta,
  • Siyu Li,
  • Qionghou Li,
  • João Loureiro,
  • Chatchai Kosawang,
  • Patricia Jaramillo Díaz,
  • Gonzalo Rivas-Torres,
  • Mario Fernández-Mazuecos,
  • Pablo Vargas,
  • Ross A. McCauley,
  • Gitte Petersen,
  • Luisa Santos-Bay,
  • Nathan Wales,
  • Julian M. Catchen,
  • Daniel Machado,
  • Michael D. Nowak,
  • Alexander Suh,
  • Neelima R. Sinha,
  • Lene R. Nielsen,
  • Ole Seberg,
  • M. Thomas P. Gilbert,
  • James H. Leebens-Mack,
  • Loren H. Rieseberg,
  • Michael D. Martin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31280-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Many island plant species share a syndrome of characteristic phenotype and life history. Cerca et al. find the genomic basis of the plant island syndrome in one of Darwin’s giant daisies, while separating ancestral genomes in a chromosome-resolved polyploid assembly.