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Loreta B. Freitas

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do SulORCID 0000-0002-0728-4945Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Bioinformatics· 1 Evolutionary Biology· 1

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Organism:plant (other)· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:development & morphogenesis· 1 Assay:DNA methylation· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:genome assembly· 1 Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 1 Research Focus:phylogenetics / evolution· 1

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Aureliano BombarelyiD· 2 shared Luana Sousa SoaresiD· 2 shared Leonardo Tresoldi GonçalvesiD· 1 shared Nelson Rosa Fagundes· 1 shared Sebastián Guzmán-RodrigueziD· 1 shared

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The Speciation Continuum in Bloom: Incomplete Lineage Sorting, Gene Flow, and Reticulate Evolution in Rapidly Diverging Plant Lineages

Luana Sousa Soares, Nelson Rosa Fagundes, Aureliano Bombarely, Loreta B. Freitas

This study examines the evolutionary history of recently diverged Petunia lineages, revealing that most are intermediate stages along a speciation continuum rather than distinct species.

bioRxiv · Apr 1, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology

Reference genome choice impacts SNP recovery but not evolutionary inference in young species

Luana Sousa Soares, Leonardo Tresoldi Gonçalves, Sebastián Guzmán-Rodriguez, Aureliano Bombarely, Loreta B. Freitas

This study evaluates how reference genome choice affects RAD-seq analyses in Petunia and Calibrachoa, finding that closely related genomes yield consistent results while distantly related ones reduce SNP recovery but not evolutionary inference.

bioRxiv · Feb 6, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics