Nuclear phylogeny of Malus with increased sampling provides new insights into biogeography and character evolution.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Malus is one of the most widespread genera of Rosaceae and includes several economically and ornamentally significant plants (e.g., apple and crabapple). The extensive genome and transcriptome data for Malus available in public databases offer a great opportunity for phylogenomic, biogeographical, and character evolution analyses in this group.

Results

We utilized nuclear genes from 45 transcriptomes/genomes, comprising 32 ingroup taxa (Malus and related species), to reconstruct a comprehensive and well-supported phylogeny and to investigate biogeography and character evolution. Our coalescent-based phylogenies from 12,835 gene families and 1,597 orthologs indicate that Malus encompasses Eriolobus and Docynia, and they identified six well-supported clades within M

SUBMITTER: Zhang L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12486966 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature