• Hundreds of nuclear and plastid loci yield novel insights into orchid relationships 

      Pérez Escobar, Oscar Alejandro; Dodsworth, Steven; Bogarín Chaves, Diego Gerardo; Bellot, Sidonie; Balbuena, Juan A.; Schley, Rowan John; Kikuchi, Izai A.; Morris, Sarah K.; Epitawalage, Niroshini; Cowan, Robyn; Maurin, Olivier; Zuntini, Alexandre; Arias Garzón, Tatiana; Serna Sánchez, Maria Alejandra; Gravendeel, Barbara; Torres Jiménez, María Fernanda; Nargar, Katharina; Chomicki, Guillaume; Chase, Mark W.; Leitch, Ilia J.; Forest, Félix; Baker, William J. (2021)
      PREMISE: The inference of evolutionary relationships in the species- rich family Orchidaceae has hitherto relied heavily on plastid DNA sequences and limited taxon sampling. Previous studies have provided a robust plastid ...
    • Molecular clocks and archeogenomics of a late period egyptian date palm leaf reveal introgression from wild relatives and add timestamps on the domestication 

      Pérez Escobar, Oscar Alejandro; Bellot, Sidonie; Przelomska, Natalia A.S.; Flowers, Jonathan M.; Nesbitt, Mark; Ryan, Philippa; Gutaker, ‪Rafal Marek; Gros-Balthazard, Muriel; Wells, Tom; Kuhnhäuser, Benedikt G.; Schley, Rowan John; Bogarín Chaves, Diego Gerardo; Dodsworth, Steven; Díaz, Rudy; Lehmann, Manuela; Petoe, Peter; Eiserhardt, Wolf L.; Preick, Michaela; Hofreiter, Michael; Hajdas, Irka; Purugganan, Michael; Antonelli, Alexandre; Gravendeel, Barbara; Leitch, Ilia J.; Torres Jiménez, María Fernanda; Papadopulos, Alexander S.T.; Chomicki, Guillaume; Susanne S., Renner; Baker, William J. (2021-06-30)
      The date palm, Phoenix dactylifera, has been a cornerstone of Middle Eastern and North African agriculture for millennia. It was first domesticated in the Persian Gulf, and its evolution appears to have been influenced by ...
    • The origin and speciation of orchids 

      Pérez Escobar, Oscar Alejandro; Bogarín Chaves, Diego Gerardo; Przelomska, Natalia A.S.; Ackerman, James D.; Balbuena, Juan A.; Bellot, Sidonie; Bühlmann, Roland P.; Cabrera, Betsaida; Aguilar Cano, José; Charitonidou, Martha; Chomicki, Guillaume; Clements, Mark A.; Cribb, Phillip; Fernández Campos, Melania; Flanagan, Nicola S.; Gravendeel, Barbara; Hágsater, Eric; Halley, John M.; Hu, Ai-Qun; Jaramillo Muñoz, Carlos Alberto; Mauad, Anna Victoria; Maurin, Olivier; Müntz, Robert; Leitch, Ilia J.; Li, Lan; Negrão, Raquel; Oses Salas, Lizbeth Melissa; Phillips, Charlotte; Rincón González, Milton; Salazar Chávez, Gerardo Adolfo; Simpson, Lalita; Smidt, Eric; Solano Gómez, Rodolfo; Parra Sánchez, Edicson; Tremblay, Raymond L.; van den Berg, Cassio; Villanueva Tamayo, Boris Stefan; Zuluaga Trochez, Alejandro; Zuntini, Alexandre; Chase, Mark W.; Fay, Michael; Condamine, Fabien L.; Forest, Félix; Nargar, Katharina; Renner, Susanne S.; Baker, William J.; Antonelli, Alexandre (2024)
      Orchids constitute one of the most spectacular radiations of flowering plants. However, their origin, spread across the globe, and hotspots of speciation remain uncertain due to the lack of an up-to-date phylogeographic ...