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Vincent S. F. T. Merckx

Naturalis Biodiversity CenterORCID 0000-0002-3959-8623Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Assay:DNA methylation· 1 Research Focus:phylogenetics / evolution· 1 Organism:plant (other)· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1 Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 1

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Evolutionary BiologyAmerican Journal of BotanyPeer-reviewedOct 1, 2026

Placing very long branch taxa in the plant tree of life: a case study with Dioscoreales mycoheterotrophs

Marybel Soto Gomez, Qianshi Lin, Nathaniel J. Klimpert…·Sean W. Graham

This study examines how very long branch taxa affect phylogenetic inference in Dioscoreales, finding that they reduce branch support and challenge current classifications.

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