Plant Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolutionary Genomics
A special issue of Plants (ISSN 2223-7747). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Genetics, Genomics and Biotechnology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 October 2020) | Viewed by 104604
Special Issue Editor
Interests: plant molecular phylogeny and systematics; genome evolution; biodiversity; phytoplanktonic metagenome
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Dear Colleagues,
The primary aim of molecular phylogenetics is to determine the evolutionary interrelationships of living beings by comparing the structures of their information macromolecules or semantids. This approach to the ascertainment of phylogeny has undeniable advantages over the "classical" method based on the comparison of various phenotypic features, which is prone to parallel and convergent variability in different phyletic lines, especially in plants. At present, no phylogenetic study can be conducted without the use of molecular data. The progress that has now been achieved in reconstructing the phylogenetically grounded Tree of Life at different taxonomic levels has breathed life into the statement by the famous Theodosius Dobzhansky: "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution". Now the phylogenetic approach serves as a blueprint for studies in almost all biological disciplines.
The use of the molecular genetic approach is not limited to phylogenic reconstruction and obtaining new data for systematics but is included in a wide range of studies on taxonomy, biodiversity and its conservation, biogeography, population genetics, molecular ecology, and agrobiology.
This Special Issue of Plants is open to research articles on all aspects of plant molecular evolution including molecular phylogenetics and systematics, phylogenomics, genomic biodiversity, barcoding and biogeography, molecular ecology, evo-devo, and phyloinformatics.
Prof. Dr. Alex Troitsky
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- molecular phylogeny
- phylogenomics
- genomic biodiversity
- taxonomy
- evolutionary genomics
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