Publications by authors named "Yalu Ru"
Article Synopsis
- - Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) significantly influences the evolution of both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes, particularly in seed plants, where its patterns and adaptations remain underexplored.
- - Researchers identified 1,150 foreign genes in 522 land plant genomes, indicating at least 322 distinct gene transfers from nonplant sources and showing uneven distribution of these transfers between seedless and seed plants.
- - The study found that HGT-acquired genes in land plants tend to adapt by gaining introns, leading to higher expression levels and variations in guanine metabolism, which demonstrates HGT's important role in land plant evolution.
Background And Aims: Sexual reproduction is known to drive plant diversification and adaptation. Here we investigate the evolutionary history and spatiotemporal origin of a dodecaploid (2n = 12x = 96) Eurasian deciduous woodland species, Cardamine bulbifera, which reproduces and spreads via vegetative bulb-like structures only. The species has been among the most successful range-expanding understorey woodland plants in Europe, which raises the question of the genetic architecture of its gene pool, since its hexaploid (2n = 6x = 48) but putatively outcrossing closest relative, C.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPremise Of The Study: Polymorphic microsatellite markers were developed for (Smilacaceae), a member of the group with a biogeographic disjunction between eastern Asia and North America, to study the phylogeography and incipient speciation of this species and its close relatives.
Methods And Results: Transcriptome sequencing produced 47,628 unigenes. Seventeen loci were developed from 122 randomly selected primer pairs.