André S. Chanderbali

TL;DR: Comprehensive phylogenomic analyses of sequenced plant genomes and more than 12.6 million new expressed-sequence-tag sequences from phylogenetically pivotal lineages are used to elucidate two groups of ancient gene duplications, implicating two WGDs in ancestral lineages shortly before the diversification of extant seed plants and extant angiosperms.

TL;DR: Findings support Laurasian ancestry for most extant Lauraceae, with their considerable neotropical representation primarily derived from Early Miocene radiation of the Ocotea complex upon reaching South America.

TL;DR: The rapid radiation of core eudicot lineages that gave rise to nearly 75% of angiosperm species appears to have occurred coincidentally or shortly following the gamma triplication event.

TL;DR: NG sequencing technologies are a highly flexible set of platforms that can be scaled to suit different project goals and suggest a combination of FLX and Solexa sequencing for optimal transcriptome coverage at modest cost.

TL;DR: 'fading borders' is offered as a testable hypothesis for the basal-most angiosperms and, by inference, perhaps some of the earliest (now extinct) angios perms.