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BIO5 Collaborators
Michael S Barker, Eric H Lyons
PMID: 21551031;PMCID: PMC3166216;Abstract:
Vascular plants appeared ∼410 million years ago, then diverged into several lineages of which only two survive: the euphyllophytes (ferns and seed plants) and the lycophytes. We report here the genome sequence of the lycophyte Selaginella moellendorffii (Selaginella), the first nonseed vascular plant genome reported. By comparing gene content in evolutionarily diverse taxa, we found that the transition from a gametophyte- to a sporophyte-dominated life cycle required far fewer new genes than the transition from a nonseed vascular to a flowering plant, whereas secondary metabolic genes expanded extensively and in parallel in the lycophyte and angiosperm lineages. Selaginella differs in posttranscriptional gene regulation, including small RNA regulation of repetitive elements, an absence of the trans-acting small interfering RNA pathway, and extensive RNA editing of organellar genes.
Koltes, J., Reecy, J., Lyons, E., McCarthy, F., Vaughn, M., Carson, J., Fritz-Waters, E., & Williams, J. (2016). P1039 Bioinformatics resources for animal genomics using CyVerse cyberinfrastructure.. Journal of Animal Science, 94(7supplement4), 33--34.
Haug-Baltzell, A., Jarvis, E. D., McCarthy, F. M., & Lyons, E. (2015). Identification of dopamine receptors across the extant avian family tree and analysis with other clades uncovers a polyploid expansion among vertebrates. Frontiers in neuroscience, 9.
Devisetty, U. K., Kennedy, K., Sarando, P., Merchant, N., & Lyons, E. (2016). Bringing your tools to CyVerse Discovery Environment using Docker. F1000Research, 5.
Joyce, B. L., Haug-Baltzell, A. K., Hulvey, J. P., McCarthy, F., Devisetty, U. K., & Lyons, E. (2017). Leveraging CyVerse Resources for De Novo Comparative Transcriptomics of Underserved (Non-model) Organisms. Journal of visualized experiments: JoVE.
