bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.07.29.454256; this version posted July 30, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 1 A phylotranscriptome study using silica gel-dried leaf tissues 2 produces an updated robust phylogeny of Ranunculaceae 3 4 Running title: RNA-seq using silica gel-dried tissues 5 Jian He1†, Rudan Lyu1†, Yike Luo1†, Jiamin Xiao1†, Lei Xie1*, Jun Wen2*, Wenhe Li1, 6 Linying Pei4, Jin Cheng3 7 1 School of Ecology and Nature Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, 8 100083 PR China 9 2Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, MRC 166, Smithsonian 10 Institution, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA 11 3 Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Tree Breeding by Molecular Design, 12 College of Biological Sciences and Technology, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing, 13 100093 PR China 14 4Beijing Engineering Technology Research Center for Garden Plants, Beijing Forestry 15 University Forest Science Co. Ltd., Beijing, 100083, PR China 16 †These authors contributed equally to this work. 17 Correspondence: Lei Xie, email:
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