Target Sequence Capture of Nuclear‐Encoded Genes for Phylogenetic
UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Previously Published Works Title Target sequence capture of nuclear-encoded genes for phylogenetic analysis in ferns. Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4kb9s929 Journal Applications in plant sciences, 6(5) ISSN 2168-0450 Authors Wolf, Paul G Robison, Tanner A Johnson, Matthew G et al. Publication Date 2018-05-17 DOI 10.1002/aps3.1148 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California GENOMIC RESOURCES ARTICLE Target sequence capture of nuclear- encoded genes for phylogenetic analysis in ferns Paul G. Wolf1,5 , Tanner A. Robison1 , Matthew G. Johnson2 , Michael A. Sundue3 , Weston L. Testo3 , and Carl J. Rothfels4 Manuscript received 31 December 2017; revision accepted PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Until recently, most phylogenetic studies of ferns were based on 4 March 2018. chloroplast genes. Evolutionary inferences based on these data can be incomplete because 1 Ecology Center and Department of Biology, Utah State the characters are from a single linkage group and are uniparentally inherited. These University, Logan, Utah 84322, USA limitations are particularly acute in studies of hybridization, which is prevalent in ferns; fern 2 Department of Biological Sciences, Texas Tech University, hybrids are common and ferns are able to hybridize across highly diverged lineages, up to 60 Lubbock, Texas 79409, USA million years since divergence in one documented case. However, it not yet clear what effect 3 Pringle Herbarium, Department of Plant Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA such hybridization has on fern evolution, in part due to a paucity of available biparentally 4 University Herbarium and Department of Integrative Biology, inherited (nuclear- encoded) markers.
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