ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025
Convergent evolution of
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Reply to Doyle: Emphasizing independent gene duplications and convergent molecular function.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Orthology ofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Impacts of gene duplication in the evolution of symbiotic root nodule symbiosis in legumes.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Convergent evolution ofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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Abstract
The origin and phylogenetic distribution of symbiotic associations between nodulating angiosperms and nitrogen-fixing bacteria have long intrigued biologists. Recent comparative evolutionary analyses have yielded alternative hypotheses: a multistep pathway of independent gains and losses of root nodule symbiosis vs. a single gain followed by numerous losses. A detailed reconstruction of the history of genes involved in signaling between nitrogen-fixing bacteria and potential hosts, particularly lipo-chitooligosaccharide (LCO) signaling, is needed to distinguish between these hypotheses. LCO recognition by plants involves the Nod Factor Perception (
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