The Origin and Early Evolution of the Legumes are a Complex Paleopolyploid Phylogenomic Tangle closely associated with the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) Boundary
E. Koenen, D. Ojeda, R. Steeves, J. Migliore, F. Bakker, J. Wieringa, C. Kidner, O. Hardy, T. Pennington, P. Herendeen, A. Bruneau, C. Hughes
This study investigates the origin and early evolution of legumes, finding multiple whole genome duplication events linked to the K-Pg boundary mass extinction and suggesting a complex polyploid history.
bioRxiv · Mar 16, 2019Evolutionary Biology