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Identifying the Phylogenetic Context of Whole-Genome Duplications in Plants

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Although evolutionary biologists have long recognized the transformative evolutionary potential of whole-genome duplications (WGDs) in plants, identifying the precise phylogenetic location of WGDs presents many challenges. This chapter reviews some new approaches to map WGDs on a phylogeny, the first step for understanding the large-scale evolutionary and ecological consequences of WGDs in plants. Specifically, it examines approaches for using chromosome and gene copy number data, gene trees, and other genomic insights to identify the evolutionary location of WGDs. The abundance of genomic sequence data and advances in phylogenetic methods present unprecedented opportunities to place WGDs within the plant tree of life. Still, there exist few direct tests to identify and place WGDs, and analyses of complex data are often susceptible to error.

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Acknowledgments

This chapter was developed and written in parts with support from the Gene Tree Reconciliation Working Group at NIMBioS through NSF award EF-0832858, with additional support from the University of Tennessee. Discussions with members of the working group including Cecile Ané, Oliver Eulenstein, Pawel Gorecki, and Brian O’Meara were helpful for this manuscript.

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Burleigh, J.G. (2012). Identifying the Phylogenetic Context of Whole-Genome Duplications in Plants. In: Soltis, P., Soltis, D. (eds) Polyploidy and Genome Evolution. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31442-1_5

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