Simone Fior

TL;DR: Before the real-world conservation potential of genomic research can be realized, current infrastructures need to be modified, methods must mature, analytical pipelines need to been developed, and successful case studies must be disseminated to practitioners.

TL;DR: This work investigates the phylogeny of the Caryophyllaceae by means of analyzing plastid and nuclear sequence data with parsimony and Bayesian methods and describes a mode of tracing a stable phylogenetic signal in ITS sequences.

TL;DR: A 'genomic' quantitative genetics approach relies on fewer assumptions, offers a greater methodological flexibility, and is thus expected to greatly enhance the understanding of evolution in natural populations, for example, in the context of adaptation to environmental change, eco-evolutionary dynamics, and biodiversity conservation.

TL;DR: It is found that plants originating from high elevations were generally shorter and produced less biomass, but phenology did not vary consistently, and it will require more studies combining the ecological and molecular approaches to understand the mechanisms underlying adaptation.

TL;DR: Next-generation sequencing is applied to PCR amplicons of 21 of the most rapidly evolving regions of the plastome to generate the first backbone phylogeny and spatiotemporal reconstruction of the Aquilegia radiation, providing a robust framework to address the adaptative nature of speciation within the group.