Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Whole-genome microsynteny-based phylogeny of angiosperms

  • Tao Zhao,
  • Arthur Zwaenepoel,
  • Jia-Yu Xue,
  • Shu-Min Kao,
  • Zhen Li,
  • M. Eric Schranz,
  • Yves Van de Peer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23665-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Molecular phylogenies are traditionally based on sequence variation, but genome rearrangements also contain phylogenetic information. Here, Zhao et al. develop an approach to reconstruct phylogenies based on microsynteny and illustrate it with a reconstruction of the angiosperm phylogeny.