Resequencing 545 ginkgo genomes across the world reveals the evolutionary history of the living fossil

Ginkgo is one of the living fossils from the plant kingdom. Here, authors conduct population genomics analyses to reveal its refugia and demographic history, and provide evidence of multiple anthropogenic introductions of ginkgo from eastern China into different continents.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yun-Peng Zhao, Guangyi Fan, Ping-Ping Yin, Shuai Sun, Ning Li, Xiaoning Hong, Gang Hu, He Zhang, Fu-Min Zhang, Jing-Dan Han, Ya-Jun Hao, Qiwu Xu, Xianwei Yang, Wenjie Xia, Wenbin Chen, Han-Yang Lin, Rui Zhang, Jiang Chen, Xiao-Ming Zheng, Simon Ming-Yuen Lee, Joongku Lee, Koichi Uehara, Jian Wang, Huanming Yang, Cheng-Xin Fu, Xin Liu, Xun Xu, Song Ge
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12133-5