Search Results - "McNeal, Joel"

Phylogeny and origins of holoparasitism in Orobanchaceae by McNeal, Joel R., Bennett, Jonathan R., Wolfe, Andrea D., Mathews, Sarah

“…Premise: Orobanchaceae are a family of angiosperms that range from fully autotrophic and free-living to completely heterotrophic and dependent on their hosts…”
Get full text

Complete plastid genome sequences suggest strong selection for retention of photosynthetic genes in the parasitic plant genus Cuscuta by McNeal, Joel R, Kuehl, Jennifer V, Boore, Jeffrey L, de Pamphilis, Claude W

“…Plastid genome content and protein sequence are highly conserved across land plants and their closest algal relatives. Parasitic plants, which obtain some or…”
Get full text

Mitochondrial DNA suggests at least 11 origins of parasitism in angiosperms and reveals genomic chimerism in parasitic plants by Barkman, Todd J, McNeal, Joel R, Lim, Seok-Hong, Coat, Gwen, Croom, Henrietta B, Young, Nelson D, Depamphilis, Claude W

“…Some of the most difficult phylogenetic questions in evolutionary biology involve identification of the free-living relatives of parasitic organisms,…”
Get full text

Analysis of 81 genes from 64 plastid genomes resolves relationships in angiosperms and identifies genome-scale evolutionary patterns by Jansen, Robert K, Cai, Zhengqiu, Raubeson, Linda A, Daniell, Henry, dePamphilis, Claude W, Leebens-Mack, James, Müller, Kai F, Guisinger-Bellian, Mary, Haberle, Rosemarie C, Hansen, Anne K, Chumley, Timothy W, Lee, Seung-Bum, Peery, Rhiannon, McNeal, Joel R, Kuehl, Jennifer V, Boore, Jeffrey L

“…Angiosperms are the largest and most successful clade of land plants with >250,000 species distributed in nearly every terrestrial habitat. Many phylogenetic…”
Get full text

Timing of rapid diversification and convergent origins of active pollination within Agavoideae (Asparagaceae) by McKain, Michael R., McNeal, Joel R., Kellar, P. Roxanne, Eguiarte, Luis E., Pires, J. Chris, Leebens-Mack, Jim

“…PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Yucca species are ideal candidates for the study of coevolution due to the obligate mutualism they form with yucca moth pollinators…”
Get full text

Phylogenomic resolution of order- and family-level monocot relationships using 602 single-copy nuclear genes and 1375 BUSCO genes by Timilsena, Prakash Raj, Wafula, Eric K, Barrett, Craig F, Ayyampalayam, Saravanaraj, McNeal, Joel R, Rentsch, Jeremy D, McKain, Michael R, Heyduk, Karolina, Harkess, Alex, Villegente, Matthieu, Conran, John G, Illing, Nicola, Fogliani, Bruno, Ané, Cécile, Pires, J Chris, Davis, Jerrold I, Zomlefer, Wendy B, Stevenson, Dennis W, Graham, Sean W, Givnish, Thomas J, Leebens-Mack, James, dePamphilis, Claude W

“…We assess relationships among 192 species in all 12 monocot orders and 72 of 77 families, using 602 conserved single-copy (CSC) genes and 1375 benchmarking…”
Get full text

A Phylogenomic Assessment of Ancient Polyploidy and Genome Evolution across the Poales by McKain, Michael R, Tang, Haibao, McNeal, Joel R, Ayyampalayam, Saravanaraj, Davis, Jerrold I, dePamphilis, Claude W, Givnish, Thomas J, Pires, J Chris, Stevenson, Dennis Wm, Leebens-Mack, James H

“…Comparisons of flowering plant genomes reveal multiple rounds of ancient polyploidy characterized by large intragenomic syntenic blocks. Three such…”
Get full text

Systematics and plastid genome evolution of the cryptically photosynthetic parasitic plant genus Cuscuta (Convolvulaceae) by McNeal, Joel R, Arumugunathan, Kathiravetpilla, Kuehl, Jennifer V, Boore, Jeffrey L, Depamphilis, Claude W

“…The genus Cuscuta L. (Convolvulaceae), commonly known as dodders, are epiphytic vines that invade the stems of their host with haustorial feeding structures at…”
Get full text

Convergent horizontal gene transfer and cross-talk of mobile nucleic acids in parasitic plants by Yang, Zhenzhen, Wafula, Eric K., Kim, Gunjune, Shahid, Saima, McNeal, Joel R., Ralph, Paula E., Timilsena, Prakash R., Yu, Wen-bin, Kelly, Elizabeth A., Zhang, Huiting, Person, Thomas Nate, Altman, Naomi S., Axtell, Michael J., Westwood, James H., dePamphilis, Claude W.

“…Horizontal gene transfer (HGT), the movement and genomic integration of DNA across species boundaries, is commonly associated with bacteria and other…”
Get full text

Parallel Loss of Plastid Introns and Their Maturase in the Genus Cuscuta by McNeal, Joel R, Kuehl, Jennifer V, Boore, Jeffrey L, Leebens-Mack, Jim, dePamphilis, Claude W

“…Plastid genome content and arrangement are highly conserved across most land plants and their closest relatives, streptophyte algae, with nearly all plastid…”
Get full text

Phylotranscriptomic Analyses of Mycoheterotrophic Monocots Show a Continuum of Convergent Evolutionary Changes in Expressed Nuclear Genes From Three Independent Nonphotosynthetic Lineages by Timilsena, Prakash Raj, Barrett, Craig F, Piñeyro-Nelson, Alma, Wafula, Eric K, Ayyampalayam, Saravanaraj, McNeal, Joel R, Yukawa, Tomohisa, Givnish, Thomas J, Graham, Sean W, Pires, J Chris, Davis, Jerrold I, Ané, Cécile, Stevenson, Dennis W, Leebens-Mack, Jim, Martínez-Salas, Esteban, Álvarez-Buylla, Elena R, dePamphilis, Claude W

“…Abstract Mycoheterotrophy is an alternative nutritional strategy whereby plants obtain sugars and other nutrients from soil fungi. Mycoheterotrophy and…”
Get full text

Methods for obtaining and analyzing whole chloroplast genome sequences by Jansen, Robert K, Raubeson, Linda A, Boore, Jeffrey L, dePamphilis, Claude W, Chumley, Timothy W, Haberle, Rosemarie C, Wyman, Stacia K, Alverson, Andrew J, Peery, Rhiannon, Herman, Sallie J, Fourcade, H Matthew, Kuehl, Jennifer V, McNeal, Joel R, Leebens-Mack, James, Cui, Liying

“…During the past decade, there has been a rapid increase in our understanding of plastid genome organization and evolution due to the availability of many new…”
Get more information

Independent and Combined Analyses of Sequences from All Three Genomic Compartments Converge on the Root of Flowering Plant Phylogeny by Barkman, Todd J., Chenery, Gordon, McNeal, Joel R., Lyons-Weiler, James, Ellisens, Wayne J., Moore, Gerry, Wolfe, Andrea D., DePamphilis, Claude W.

“…Plant phylogenetic estimates are most likely to be reliable when congruent evidence is obtained independently from the mitochondrial, plastid, and nuclear…”
Get full text

Using partial genomic fosmid libraries for sequencing complete organellar genomes by McNeal, Joel R, Leebens-Mack, James H, Arumuganathan, Kathiravetpillai, Kuehl, Jennifer V, Boore, Jeffrey L, DePamphilis, Claude W

“…Organellar genome sequences provide numerous phylogenetic markers and yield insight into organellar function and molecular evolution. These genomes are much…”
Get full text

One thousand plant transcriptomes and the phylogenomics of green plants by Leebens-Mack, James H, Barker, Michael S, Carpenter, Eric J, Deyholos, Michael K, Gitzendanner, Matthew A, Graham, Sean W, Grosse, Ivo

“…Green plants (Viridiplantae) include around 450,000–500,000 species 1 , 2 of great diversity and have important roles in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems…”
Get full text

genome triplication associated with early diversification of the core eudicots by Jiao, Yuannian, Leebens-Mack, Jim, Ayyampalayam, Saravanaraj, Bowers, John E, McKain, Michael R, McNeal, Joel, Rolf, Megan, Ruzicka, Daniel R, Wafula, Eric, Wickett, Norman J, Wu, Xiaolei, Zhang, Yong, Wang, Jun, Zhang, Yeting, Carpenter, Eric J, Deyholos, Michael K, Kutchan, Toni M, Chanderbali, Andre S, Soltis, Pamela S, Stevenson, Dennis W, McCombie, Richard, Pires, J Chris, Wong, Gane Ka-Shu, Soltis, Douglas E, dePamphilis, Claude W

“…BACKGROUND: Although it is agreed that a major polyploidy event, gamma, occurred within the eudicots, the phylogenetic placement of the event remains unclear…”
Get full text

Assembling the Tree of the Monocotyledons: Plastome Sequence Phylogeny and Evolution of Poales1 by Givnish, Thomas J, Ames, Mercedes, McNeal, Joel R, McKain, Michael R, Steele, P. Roxanne, dePamphilis, Claude W, Graham, Sean W, Pires, J. Chris, Stevenson, Dennis W, Zomlefer, Wendy B, Briggs, Barbara G, Duvall, Melvin R, Moore, Michael J, Heaney, J. Michael, Soltis, Douglas E, Soltis, Pamela S, Thiele, Kevin, Leebens-Mack, James H

“…The order Poales comprises a substantial portion of plant life (7% of all angiosperms and 33% of monocots) and includes taxa of enormous economic and…”
Get full text

ASSEMBLING THE TREE OF THE MONOCOTYLEDONS: PLASTOME SEQUENCE PHYLOGENY AND EVOLUTION OF POALES by Givnish, Thomas J., Armes, Mercedes, McNeal, Joel R., McKain, Michael R., Steele, P. Roxanne, dePamphilis, Claude W., Graham, Sean W., Pires, J. Chris, Stevenson, Dennis W., Zomlefer, Wendy B., Briggs, Barbara G., Duvall, Melvin R., Moore, Michael J., Heaney, J. Michael, Soltis, Douglas E., Soltis, Pamela S., Thiele, Kevin, Leebens-Mack, James H.

“…The order Poales comprises a substantial portion of plant life (7% of all angiosperms and 3 3% of monocots) and includes taxa of enormous economic and…”
Get full text

Assembling the Tree of the Monocotyledons: Plastome Sequence Phylogeny and Evolution of Poales 1 by Givnish, Thomas J., Ames, Mercedes, McNeal, Joel R., McKain, Michael R., Steele, P. Roxanne, dePamphilis, Claude W., Graham, Sean W., Pires, J. Chris, Stevenson, Dennis W., Zomlefer, Wendy B., Briggs, Barbara G., Duvall, Melvin R., Moore, Michael J., Heaney, J. Michael, Soltis, Douglas E., Soltis, Pamela S., Thiele, Kevin, Leebens-Mack, James H.

Get full text

Systematics and plastid genome evolution in the parasitic plant genus Cuscuta (Dodder) by McNeal, Joel R

“…Parasitism has evolved independently many times within the course of angiosperm evolution. One of the most economically damaging of these parasitic lineages is…”
Get full text