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ArticleCommunicative & integrative biology2011

Novel tools for an old lineage: Population genomics for cycads.

Angelica Cibrián-Jaramillo, Thomas E Marler

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Article in Communicative & integrative biology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. First, do no harm.Communicative & integrative biology · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Angelica Cibrián-JaramilloSackler Institute for Comparative Genomics American Museum of Natural History; New York, NY USA; The New York Botanical Garden, Genomics; Bronx, NY USA.
Thomas E Marler

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With a ca. 300 million year-old evolutionary history, cycads are often perceived as "living fossils," relicts of their previously widespread dominance. Patterns of genetic variation for a member of the most basal cycad genus, Cycas micronesica, support the notion that cycads are a dynamic group with ongoing diversification. Herein we hypothesize that cycad's hefty genomes enable rapid adaptive change and facilitate specific beneficial interactions with varying assemblages of symbionts. Characterizing population-level genomic patterns of cycads and their symbionts, pollinators in particular, will enlighten our understanding of these mechanisms and of adaptive variation that underlies cycad evolution. In light of rapid climate and landscape change, cycads are a beacon for understanding the ecological processes that ultimately enable species long-term survival.

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adaptive variationcycadsCycas micronesicaecological genomicsnext-generation sequencingwild populations

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PMID21966573
PMCPMC3181523

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