Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

The Litsea genome and the evolution of the laurel family

  • Yi-Cun Chen,
  • Zhen Li,
  • Yun-Xiao Zhao,
  • Ming Gao,
  • Jie-Yu Wang,
  • Ke-Wei Liu,
  • Xue Wang,
  • Li-Wen Wu,
  • Yu-Lian Jiao,
  • Zi-Long Xu,
  • Wen-Guang He,
  • Qi-Yan Zhang,
  • Chieh-Kai Liang,
  • Yu-Yun Hsiao,
  • Di-Yang Zhang,
  • Si-Ren Lan,
  • Laiqiang Huang,
  • Wei Xu,
  • Wen-Chieh Tsai,
  • Zhong-Jian Liu,
  • Yves Van de Peer,
  • Yang-Dong Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15493-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Litsea cubeba belongs to the Lauraceae family within the Magnoliids clade. Here, the authors assemble its genome and reveal divergence of inflorescence and sexual differentiation, the phylogenetic relationships across the Lauraceae and related species, and biosynthetic genes related to essential oil synthesis.