Publications
The Amborella Genome and the Evolution of Flowering Plants (2013)
Amborella Genome Project. 2013. The Amborella Genome and the Evolution of Flowering Plants. Science 342: DOI: 10.1126/science.1241089
Monocot Systematics and Evolution
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Selected Publications
Phylogenomic Investigations of Green Plant (Viridiplantae) Diversification
Bratzel, F., Paule, J., Leebens-Mack, J., Leme, E. M. C., Forzza, R. C. C., Koch, M. A. A., Zizka, G. 2023. Target-enrichment sequencing reveals for the first time a well-resolved phylogeny of the core Bromelioideae (family Bromeliaceae). Taxon 72(1): 47-63. https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12831
Timilsena, P. R., Wafula, E. K., Barrett, C. F., Ayyampalayam, S., McNeal, J. R., Rentsch, J. D., . . . Leebens-Mack, J., dePamphilis, C. W. 2022. Phylogenomic resolution of order- and family-level monocot relationships using 602 single-copy nuclear genes and 1375 BUSCO genes. Frontiers in Plant Science 13: 18 pages. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.876779
Thomas, S.K. X. Liu, Z-Y. Du, Y. Dong, A. Cummings, L. Pokorny, Q-Y. Xiang, J.H. Leebens-Mack. 2021. Comprehending the Cornales: Phylogenetic reconstruction of the order using the Angiosperms353 probe set. American Journal of Botany 108(7):1112–1121. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1696
One Thousand Plant Transcriptomes Initiative (194 co-authors including leads Leebens-Mack, J.H., Barker, M. S., Carpenter, E. J., Deyholos, M. K., Gitzendanner, M. A., Graham, S. W, Grosse, I., Li, Z., Melkonian, M., Mirarab, S., Porsch, M., Quint, M., Rensing, S. A., Soltis, D. E., Soltis P.S., Stevenson D. W., Ullrich, K. K., Wickett, N.J., , Wong, G. K.-S.) 2019. One Thousand Plant Transcriptomes Elucidate Green Plant Phylogenomics. Nature 574:679–685 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1693-2.
Heyduk, K., M.R. McKain, F. Lalani, J. Leebens-Mack. 2016. Evolution of a CAM anatomy predates the origins of Crassulacean acid metabolism in the Agavoideae (Asparagaceae). Mol Phylogenet Evol. 105:102-13. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2016.08.018.
Origin and Early Diversification of Flowering Plants
Qin, L., Y. Hu, J. Wang, R. Zhao, H. Shan, K. Li, P. Xu, H. Wu, X. Yan, L. Liu, X. Yi, S. Wanke, J. E. Bowers, J. H. Leebens-Mack, C. W. dePamphilis, P. S. Soltis, D. E. Soltis, H. Kong, Y. Jiao 2021. Insights into angiosperm evolution, floral development and chemical biosynthesis from the Aristolochia fimbriata genome. Nat. Plants 7:1239-1253. DOI: 10.1038/s41477-021-00990-2
Amborella Genome Project. 2013. The Amborella Genome and the Evolution of Flowering Plants. Science 342: DOI: 10.1126/science.1241089
Jiao, Y., J. Leebens-Mack, S, Ayyampalayam, J. E. Bowers, M. R McKain, J. McNeal, M. Rolf, D. R Ruzicka, E. Wafula, N. J Wickett, X. Wu, Y. Zhang, J. Wang, Y. Zhang, E. Carpenter, M. K Deyholos, T. M Kutchan, A. S. Chanderbali, P. S. Soltis, D. W. Stevenson, R. McCombie, J. C. Pires, G. Ka-Shu Wong, D. E. Soltis and C. W. dePamphilis. 2012. A genome triplication associated with early diversification of the core eudicots. Genome Biology 13(1):R3. DOI:10.1186/gb-2012-13-1-r3.
Monocot Systematics and Evolution
Timilsena, P. R., Barrett, C. F., Nelson, A. P., Wafula, E. K., Ayyampalayam, S., McNeal, J. R., . . . Leebens-Mack, J, dePamphilis, C. W. 2023. Phylotranscriptomic analyses of mycoheterotrophic monocots show a continuum of convergent evolutionary changes in expressed nuclear genes from three independent nonphotosynthetic lineages. Genome Biol Evol. 15(1) https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evac183
McKain, M.R., Tang, J.R., Ayyampalayam, S., Davis, J.I., dePamphilis, C.W., Givnish, T.J., Pires, J.C., Stevenson, D.W., Leebens-Mack, J.H. 2016. A phylogenomic assessment of ancient polyploidy and genome evolution across the poales. Genome Biology and Evolution. 8 (4): 1150–1164. https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evw060
Givnish, T.J., Zuluaga, A., Spalink, D., Soto Gomez, M,, Lam, V.K.Y., Saarela, J.M., Sass, C., Iles, W.J.D., de Sousa, D.J.L., Leebens-Mack, J., Pires, J.C., Zomlefer, W.B., Gandolfo, M.A., Davis, J.I., Stevenson, D.W., dePamphilis, C., Specht, C.D., Graham S.W., Barrett, C.F., Ané, C. 2018. Monocot plastid phylogenomics, timeline, net rates of species diversification, the power of multi-gene analyses, and a functional model for the origin of monocots. American Journal of Botany 105(11):1888-1910 https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1178
Evolution of Dioecy and Sex Determination in Flowering Plants
Carey S.B., J.T. Lovell, J. Jenkins, J.H. Leebens-Mack, J. Schmutz, M.A. Wilson, A. Harkess. 2022. Representing sex chromosomes in genome assemblies. Cell Genomics 2 (5): 100132, doi: 10.1016/j.xgen.2022.100132.
Käfer, J., A. Bewick, A. Andres-Robin, G. Lapetoule, A. Harkess, J. Caïus, B. Fogliani, G. Gâteblé, P. Ralph, C. W. dePamphilis, F. Picard, C. P. Scutt, G.A.B. Marais, J.H. Leebens-Mack. 2022. A derived ZW chromosome system in Amborella trichopoda, the sister species to all other extant flowering plants. New Phytologist 233(4): 1636-1642. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.17662
Harkess, A. K.Huang, R. van der Hulst, B. Tissen, J. L. Caplan, A. Koppula, M. Batish, B.C. Meyers, J. Leebens-Mack. 2020. Sex chromosome evolution via two genes. Plant Cell 32: 1790–1796. https://doi.org/10.1101/494112
Harkess, A., Zhou, J., Xu, C., Bowers, JE., Hulst, R., Ayyampalayam, S., Mercati, F., Riccardi, P., McKain, MR., Kakrana, A., Tang, H., Ray, J., Groenendijk J., Arikit, S., Mathioni, SM., Nakano, M., Shan, H., Telgmann-Rauber, A., Kanno, A., Yue, Z., Chen, H., Li, Y., Chen, Y., Xu, X., Zhang, Y., Luo, S., Chen, H., Gao, J., Mao, Z., Pires, JC., Luo, M., Kudrna, D., Wing, RA., Meyers, BC., Yi, K., Kong, H., Lavrijsen, P., Sunseri, F., Falavigna, A., Ye, Y., Leebens-Mack, JH., Chen, G. 2017. The asparagus genome sheds light on the origin and evolution of a young Y chromosome. Nature Communications. 8(1):1279. doi:10.1038/s41467-017-01064-8
Harkess, A., Mercati, F., Shan, H.-Y., Sunseri, F., Falavigna, A., Leebens-Mack, J. 2015. Sex-biased gene expression in dioecious garden asparagus (Asparagus officinalis). New Phytologist. 207:883–892. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.13389
Plant-Pollinator Coevolution
Mckain, M.R., Mcneal, J.R., Kellar, P.R., Eguiarte, L.E., Pires, J.C., Leebens-Mack, J. 2016. Timing of rapid diversification and convergent origins of active pollination within Agavoideae (Asparagaceae). American Journal of Botany. 103:1717–1729. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1600198
Rentsch, J.D., and J. Leebens-Mack. 2014. Yucca aloifolia (Asparagaceae) opts out of an obligate pollination mutualism. American Journal of Botany. 101(12):2062-2067. https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.1400351
Crassulecean Acid Metabolism and its Impact on Biodiversity
Heyduk, K., McAssey, E.V, Field, R., Leebens-Mack, J.H.. 2023. The Agavoideae: an emergent model clade system for CAM evolutionary biology. Annals of Botany, Advance Access https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcad062.
Heyduk K., McAssey E.V., Leebens-Mack J.H. 2022. Timing of gene expression and recruitment in independent origins of CAM in the Agavoideae (Asparagaceae). New Phytologist 235(5), 2111-2126 - https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.18267
Heyduk, K., Ray, J.N., Ayyampalayam, S., Leebens-Mack, J. 2018. Shifts in gene expression profiles are associated with weak and strong Crassulacean acid metabolism. American Journal of Botany. 105, 587–601. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajb2.1017
Heyduk, K., Mckain, M.R., Lalani, F., Leebens-Mack, J. 2016. Evolution of a CAM anatomy predates the origins of Crassulacean acid metabolism in the Agavoideae (Asparagaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 105:102–113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.08.018
Ming, R., Vanburen, R., Wai, C.M., Tang, H., Schatz, M.C., Bowers, J.E., Lyons, E., Wang, M.-L., Chen, J., Biggers, E., Zhang, J., Huang, L., Zhang, L., Miao, W., Zhang, J., Ye, Z., Miao, C., Lin, Z., Wang, H., Zhou, H., Yim, W.C., Priest, H.D., Zheng, C., Woodhouse, M., Edger, P.P., Guyot, R., Guo, H.-B., Guo, H., Zheng, G., Singh, R., Sharma, A., Min, X., Zheng, Y., Lee, H., Gurtowski, J., Sedlazeck, F.J., Harkess, A., Mckain, M.R., Liao, Z., Fang, J., Liu, J., Zhang, X., Zhang, Q., Hu, W., Qin, Y., Wang, K., Chen, L.-Y., Shirley, N., Lin, Y.-R., Liu, L.-Y., Hernandez, A.G., Wright, C.L., Bulone, V., Tuskan, G.A., Heath, K., Zee, F., Moore, P.H., Sunkar, R., Leebens-Mack, J.H., Mockler, T., Bennetzen, J.L., Freeling, M., Sankoff, D., Paterson, A.H., Zhu, X., Yang, X., Smith, J.A.C., Cushman, J.C., Paull, R.E., Yu, Q. 2015. The pineapple genome and the evolution of CAM photosynthesis. Nature Genetics. 47, 1435–1442. doi: 10.1038/ng.3435