Pharaoh’s Dance: the oak genomic mosaic
- Published
- Accepted
- Subject Areas
- Biodiversity, Evolutionary Studies, Plant Science, Taxonomy, Population Biology
- Keywords
- Quercus, Oaks, Fagaceae, Genomic mosaicism, Introgression, Phylogenetic networks, Syngameon, Phylogeny, Hybridization, Recombination
- Copyright
- © 2019 Hipp
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ Preprints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2019. Pharaoh’s Dance: the oak genomic mosaic. PeerJ Preprints 7:e27405v2 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27405v2
Abstract
When we look at an oak, we see one organism, despite the fact that each of the estimated 25,808 genes in the oak genome has a unique history. Here I review why the evolutionary history of oaks comprises a variety of phylogenetic histories that trace disparate histories of introgression, stochastic allele extinction, and population divergence. I describe recent phylogenomic work that dissects the multiple phylogenetic histories constituting the history of white oak movements between the Americas and Eurasia. Finally, I argue that the patterns and causes of genomic mosaicism should be a central focus of inquiry for oak phylogenetic work in the coming decade.
Author Comment
This is the final accepted version of the ms, as it will be published in International oaks : the journal of the International Oak Society