The Apostasia genome and the evolution of orchids

• Published in: Nature (London) Vol. 549; no. 7672; pp. 379 - 383
• Main Authors: Zhang, Guo-Qiang, Liu, Ke-Wei, Li, Zhen, Lohaus, Rolf, Hsiao, Yu-Yun, Niu, Shan-Ce, Wang, Jie-Yu, Lin, Yao-Cheng, Xu, Qing, Chen, Li-Jun, Yoshida, Kouki, Fujiwara, Sumire, Wang, Zhi-Wen, Zhang, Yong-Qiang, Mitsuda, Nobutaka, Wang, Meina, Liu, Guo-Hui, Pecoraro, Lorenzo, Huang, Hui-Xia, Xiao, Xin-Ju, Lin, Min, Wu, Xin-Yi, Wu, Wan-Lin, Chen, You-Yi, Chang, Song-Bin, Sakamoto, Shingo, Ohme-Takagi, Masaru, Yagi, Masafumi, Zeng, Si-Jin, Shen, Ching-Yu, Yeh, Chuan-Ming, Luo, Yi-Bo, Tsai, Wen-Chieh, Van de Peer, Yves, Liu, Zhong-Jian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 21.09.2017; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 45/23; 45/91; 631/181/759; 631/208/726; Angiosperms; Biodiversity; Biological evolution; Biosynthesis; Botanical research; Divergence; Endosperm; Evolution; Evolutionary genetics; Flowering; Flowering plants; Flowers & plants; Gene families; Genes; Genetic aspects; Genomes; Humanities and Social Sciences; letter; MADS box proteins; multidisciplinary; Natural history; Nucleotide sequence; Orchids; Phylogenetics; Plant species; Science; Seeds; Taiwan

WebComparing the whole genome sequence of Apostasia shenzhenica with transcriptome and genome data from five orchid subfamilies permits the reconstruction of an ancestral gene toolkit, providing insight into orchid origins, evolution and diversification. Orchid origins Around 10 per cent of flowerin...