Rengang Zhang

Orthologous synteny provides robust structural evidence for the ancestral angiosperm ε-WGD

The paper provides structural and phylogenetic evidence supporting the occurrence of the ancestral angiosperm ε-WGD, resolving a long-standing debate.

SOI: Robust identification of orthologous synteny with the Orthology Index and broad applications in evolutionary genomics

This paper introduces the Orthology Index (OI) to robustly identify orthologous synteny, demonstrating its scalability and reliability across diverse polyploidization events and applications in plant evolutionary genomics.

Phytop: A tool for visualizing and recognizing signals of incomplete lineage sorting and hybridization using species trees output from ASTRAL

Phytop detects and visualizes incomplete lineage sorting and hybridization using species trees to clarify phylogenetic uncertainty.

A novel downstream factor in willows replaces the ancestral sex determining gene

The paper identifies a novel sex-determining gene in willows that replaces the ancestral ARR17-like duplicates in the S. polyclona complex.

Purifying selection purges harmful variants in the rarest pine

The paper investigates purifying selection in the rarest pine species, finding efficient purging of harmful variants despite extreme population size reduction.

TEsorter: lineage-level classification of transposable elements using conserved protein domains

TEsorter classifies transposable elements at the lineage level using conserved protein domains, offering speed, sensitivity, and precision for LTR retrotransposons.

Chromosome-scale assembly of the genome of Salix dunnii reveals a male-heterogametic sex determination system on chromosome 7

Hybrid origin of Populus tomentosa Carr. identified through genome sequencing and phylogenomic analysis

This study identifies the hybrid origin of Populus tomentosa through genome sequencing and phylogenomic analysis, revealing it resulted from hybridization between Populus adenopoda and Populus alba var. pyramidalis around 3.93 Mya.