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2019
Journal article
The Impact of Mutualisms on Species Richness
Mutualisms – cooperative interactions among different species – are known to influence global biodiversity. Nevertheless, theoretical and empirical work has led to divergent hypotheses about how mutualisms modulate diversity. We ask here when and how mutualisms influence species richness. Our synthesis suggests that mutualisms can promote or restrict species richness...Chomicki, Guillaume ; Weber, Marjorie ; Antonelli, Alexandre ; Bascompte, Jordi ; Kiers, Toby
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2019
Presentation
Narrowing Down the Early Domestication History of the Watermelon with Ancient Seeds and DNA.
Renner, Susanne S. ; Pérez-Escobar, Oscar A. ; Silber, Martina V. ; Nesbitt, Martin ; Preick, Michaela …
Ancient Egypt, Citrullus lanatus, Genomics, Plant domestication, and Archaeological remains
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2021
Journal article
Hundreds of nuclear and plastid loci yield novel insights into orchid relationships.
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2021
Journal article
A robust phylogenomic framework for the calamoid palms
Well-supported phylogenies are a prerequisite for the study of the evolution and diversity of life on earth. The subfamily Calamoideae accounts for more than one fifth of the palm family (Arecaceae), occurs in tropical rainforests across the world, and supports a billion-dollar industry in rattan products. It contains ca. 550...Kuhnhäuser, Benedikt G. ; Bellot, Sidonie ; Couvreur, Thomas L.P. ; Dransfield, John ; Henderson, Andrew …
Systematics, Calamoideae, Phylogenomics, Gene tree conflict, Rattan, and Arecaceae
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2021
Journal article
Genome‐wide transcriptome signatures of ant‐farmed Squamellaria epiphytes reveal key functions in a unique symbiosis.
Pu, Yuanshu ; Naikatini, Alivereti ; Pérez‐Escobar, Oscar Alejandro ; Silber, Martina ; Renner, Susanne S. …
Symbiosis, De novo transcriptomics, Squamellaria, Mutualism, and Ant agriculture
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2021
Journal article
A chromosome-level genome of a Kordofan melon illuminates the origin of domesticated watermelons.
Wild progenitors of crops are important resources for breeding and for understanding domestication, but identifying them is difficult. Using an integrative approach, we discovered that a Sudanese form of melon with nonbitter whitish pulp, known as the Kordofan melon, is the closest relative of domesticated watermelons and a possible progenitor.... -
2022
Journal article
Genome sequencing of up to 6,000-yr-old Citrullus seeds reveals use of a bitter-fleshed species prior to watermelon domestication.
Iconographic evidence from Egypt suggests that watermelon pulp was consumed there as a dessert by 4,360 BP. Earlier archaeobotanical evidence comes from seeds from Neolithic settlements in Libya, but whether these were watermelons with sweet pulp or other forms is unknown. We generated genome sequences from 6,000- and 3,300-yr-old seeds...