Phylogenomics Yields New Insight Into Relationships Within Vernonieae (Asteraceae).

ABSTRACT: Asteraceae, or the sunflower family, is the largest family of flowering plants and is usually considered difficult to work with, not only due to its size, but also because of the abundant cases of polyploidy and ancient whole-genome duplications. Traditional molecular systematics studies were often impaired by the low levels of variation found in chloroplast markers and the high paralogy of traditional nuclear markers like ITS. Next-generation sequencing and novel phylogenomics methods, such as target capture and Hyb-Seq, have provided new ways of studying the phylogeny of the family with great success. While the resolution of the backbone of the family is in progress with some results already published, smaller studies focusing on internal clades of the phylogeny are important to increase

SUBMITTER: Siniscalchi CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6843069 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature