Kun-Li Xiang, Sheng-Dan Wu, Lian Lian, Wen-Chuang He, Dan Peng, Huan-Wen Peng, Xiao-Ni Zhang, Hong-Lei Li, Jia-Yu Xue, Hong-Yan Shan, Gui-Xia Xu, Yang Liu, Zhi-Qiang Wu, Wei Wang
Living fossils are evidence of long-term sustained ecological success. However, whether living fossils have little molecular changes remains poorly known, particularly in plants. Here, we have introduced a novel method that integrates phylogenomic, comparative genomic, and ecological niche modeling analyses to investigate the rate of molecular evolution of Eupteleaceae, a Cretaceous relict angiosperm family endemic to East Asia. We assembled a high-quality chromosome-level nuclear genome, and the chloroplast and mitochondrial genomes of a member of Eupteleaceae (Euptelea pleiosperma)...
December 11, 2023: Science China. Life Sciences