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Introgression shapes the genomic conflict landscape of Malus, providing evidence for a reticulate backbone in a woody crop lineage.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Dec 2026
Li Xiao-Ya, Niu Zhao-Qian, Zheng Ya-Wen, Huang Jue-Lin, Ma Dai-Kun, Huang Jia-Xin, Hao Qiang, Zhang Ti-Cao, Xie Si-Yu, Xu Chao, Liu Bin-Bin
Abstract excerpt
Phylogenomic discordance is widespread across plants, but its evolutionary significance is often obscured when conflict is treated primarily as analytical noise rather than as evidence of underlying processes. In woody lineages in particular, incomplete lineage sorting, introgression, and genome duplication can interact over long timescales to produce complex genomic histories that are not adequately summarized...
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- Malus
- Phylogeny
- Genome, Plant
- Cell Nucleus
- Models, Genetic
- Genome, Plastid
