Tracey A. Ruhlman

Coordinated Evolutionary Rates in Oxidative Phosphorylation Complexes of Papilionoid Legumes: Cytonuclear Coevolution and Relaxed Selection

This study examines evolutionary rate covariation between mitochondrial and nuclear-encoded OXPHOS genes in papilionoid legumes, finding accelerated substitution rates and relaxed purifying selection in a 50-kb inversion clade.

Well-resolved phylogeny supports repeated evolution of keel flowers as a synergistic contributor to papilionoid legume diversification

The paper uses phylogenetic analysis to show keel flowers evolved multiple times in legumes but did not drive diversification alone, suggesting synergistic factors like nitrogen fixation and dispersal were more important.

Plastid Genome Assembly Using Long-read Data (ptGAUL)

The paper introduces ptGAUL, a pipeline for assembling plastomes from long-read data, showing it produces accurate assemblies and revealing long repeats and rearrangements in Juncus plastomes.