1. The Sphagnome Project: enabling ecological and evolutionary insights through a genus-level sequencing project.
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Weston DJ, Turetsky MR, Johnson MG, Granath G, Lindo Z, Belyea LR, Rice SK, Hanson DT, Engelhardt KAM, Schmutz J, Dorrepaal E, Euskirchen ES, Stenøien HK, Szövényi P, Jackson M, Piatkowski BT, Muchero W, Norby RJ, Kostka JE, Glass JB, Rydin H, Limpens J, Tuittila ES, Ullrich KK, Carrell A, Benscoter BW, Chen JG, Oke TA, Nilsson MB, Ranjan P, Jacobson D, Lilleskov EA, Clymo RS, and Shaw AJ
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- Adaptation, Physiological, Biological Evolution, Ecology, Phylogeny, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Sphagnopsida cytology, Sphagnopsida physiology, Genome, Plant genetics, Genomics, Models, Biological, Sphagnopsida genetics
- Abstract
Considerable progress has been made in ecological and evolutionary genetics with studies demonstrating how genes underlying plant and microbial traits can influence adaptation and even 'extend' to influence community structure and ecosystem level processes. Progress in this area is limited to model systems with deep genetic and genomic resources that often have negligible ecological impact or interest. Thus, important linkages between genetic adaptations and their consequences at organismal and ecological scales are often lacking. Here we introduce the Sphagnome Project, which incorporates genomics into a long-running history of Sphagnum research that has documented unparalleled contributions to peatland ecology, carbon sequestration, biogeochemistry, microbiome research, niche construction, and ecosystem engineering. The Sphagnome Project encompasses a genus-level sequencing effort that represents a new type of model system driven not only by genetic tractability, but by ecologically relevant questions and hypotheses., (© 2017 UT-Battelle New Phytologist © 2017 New Phytologist Trust.)
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- 2018
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