ABSTRACT: Plastid phylogenomics reveals evolutionary relationships in the mycoheterotrophic orchid genus Dipodium and provides insights into plastid gene degeneration
Project description:Molecular phylogenomics investigates evolutionary relationships based on genomic data. However, despite genomic sequence conservation, changes in protein interactions can occur relatively rapidly and may cause strong functional diversification. To investigate such functional evolution, we here combine phylogenomics with interaction proteomics. We develop this concept by investigating the molecular evolution of the shelterin complex, which protects telomeres, across 16 vertebrate species from zebrafish to humans covering 450 million years of evolution. Our phylointeractomics screen discovers previously unknown telomere-associated proteins and reveals how homologous proteins undergo functional evolution. For instance, we show that TERF1 evolved as a telomere-binding protein in the common stem lineage of marsupial and placental mammals. Phylointeractomics is a versatile and scalable approach to investigate evolutionary changes in protein function and thus can provide experimental evidence for phylogenomic relationships.
Project description:Plastid phylogenomics clarifies broad-level relationships in Bulbophyllum (Orchidaceae) and provides insights into range evolution of Australasian section Adelopetalum.
| PRJEB72010 | ENA
Project description:Fungi isolated from mycoheterotrophic orchid Pogoniopsis schenckii Cogn. Other
| PRJNA579755 | ENA
Project description:Plastid phylogenomics of Berberidoideae
| PRJNA763791 | ENA
Project description:Evolutionary Relationships of Ticks
Project description:Mixo-Orc : Comparison of the plastid genome evolution between autotrophic, mixotrophic and mycoheterotrophic species in a narrow phylogenetic frame in the orchid tribe Neottieae.
| PRJNA484137 | ENA
Project description:Phylogenetic relationships of genus Sorghum
