Leslie R. Goertzen

TL;DR: Results indicate that Amborella has acquired one or more copies of 20 of its 31 known mitochondrial protein genes from other land plants, for a total of 26 foreign genes, whereas no evidence for HGT was found in the five sequenced genomes.

TL;DR: It is shown that concerted evolution was proceeding rapidly enough in ETS that species-specific phylogenetic signal was retained and it should be now be possible to use the entire ETS for phylogenetic reconstruction of recently diverged lineages in Asteraceae and at least three other families.

TL;DR: The sequence alignment enabled by conserved structural features provides a framework for broadscale molecular evolutionary studies and the first family-level phylogeny of the Asteraceae based on nuclear DNA data, which shows considerable congruence with relationships among major lineages of the family suggested by chloroplast DNA studies.

TL;DR: CRF genes can be identified in all lineages of land plants, as a distinct subset of AP2/ERF proteins containing a specific and unique CRF domain, which can be used to identify previously unclassified predicted genes or genes identified only as members of the AP2-ERF protein family.

TL;DR: These workflows represent the combined work of approximately 35 curators, directors, and collections managers representing more than 30 herbaria, including 15 NSF-supported plant-related Thematic Collections Networks and collaboratives and are provided for download as Portable Document Format and Microsoft Word files.