Publications by authors named "Lucia Campos-Dominguez"
Article Synopsis
- - The Darwin Tree of Life Project (DToL) focuses on sequencing high-quality genomes for all eukaryotic species in Britain and Ireland, highlighting the importance of accurate organism identification through DNA barcoding.
- - DNA barcoding offers a reliable method for species identification and resolving taxonomic ambiguities, but it has not been widely used in projects creating reference genomes until this initiative.
- - The project analyzed over 12,000 specimens, revealing that up to 20% needed further verification, leading to name changes for 2% of seed plants and 3.5% of animal specimens, while also suggesting improvements for future sequencing and data analysis.
Clarifying the evolutionary processes underlying species diversification and adaptation is a key focus of evolutionary biology. Begonia (Begoniaceae) is one of the most species-rich angiosperm genera with c. 2000 species, most of which are shade-adapted.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBegonia is an important horticultural plant group, as well as one of the most speciose Angiosperm genera, with over 2000 described species. Genus wide studies of genome size have shown that Begonia has a highly variable genome size, and analysis of paralog pairs has previously suggested that Begonia underwent a whole genome duplication. We address the contribution of gene duplication to the generation of diversity in Begonia using a multi-tissue RNA-seq approach.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLow, but non-freezing, temperatures have negative effects on plant growth and development. Despite some molecular signalling pathways being known, the mechanisms causing different responses among genotypes are still poorly understood. Photosynthesis is one of the processes that are affected by low temperatures.
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