Reprint of: using nuclear gene data for plant phylogenetics: progress and prospects

Elizabeth A Zimmer; Jun Wen

doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.01.005

Reprint of: using nuclear gene data for plant phylogenetics: progress and prospects

Mol Phylogenet Evol. 2013 Feb;66(2):539-50. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.01.005.

Authors

Elizabeth A Zimmer¹, Jun Wen

Affiliation

¹ Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, MRC 166, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013-7012, USA. zimmerl@si.edu

PMID: 23375140
DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2013.01.005

Abstract

The paper reviews the current state of low and single copy nuclear markers that have been applied successfully in plant phylogenetics to date, and discusses case studies highlighting the potential of massively parallel high throughput or next-generation sequencing (NGS) approaches for molecular phylogenetic and evolutionary investigations. The current state, prospects and challenges of specific single- or low-copy plant nuclear markers as well as phylogenomic case studies are presented and evaluated.