11 results on '"Vivienne K. Y. Lam"'
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2. Mycoheterotrophic Epirixanthes (Polygalaceae) has a typical angiosperm mitogenome but unorthodox plastid genomes
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H. Æ. Pedersen, Sean W. Graham, Hayley Darby, Athanasios Zervas, Vincent S. F. T. Merckx, Vivienne K. Y. Lam, Gitte Lindved Petersen, and Ole Seberg
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0106 biological sciences ,Mitochondrial DNA ,Rearrangements ,Inverted repeat ,Genome, Plastid ,Plant Science ,01 natural sciences ,Genome ,Evolution, Molecular ,03 medical and health sciences ,selective pressure ,Magnoliopsida ,mycoheterotrophy ,Mitochondrial genome ,Faculty of Science ,Epirixanthes ,rearrangements ,Plastid ,Parasitic plants ,plastome evolution ,Gene ,Phylogeny ,030304 developmental biology ,0303 health sciences ,biology ,Botany ,food and beverages ,Heterotrophic Processes ,Original Articles ,gene loss ,biology.organism_classification ,Housekeeping gene ,Mycoheterotrophy ,Polygalaceae ,Chloroplast DNA ,Evolutionary biology ,mitochondrial genome ,Genome, Mitochondrial ,parasitic plants ,Plastome evolution ,010606 plant biology & botany - Abstract
Background and Aims Fully mycoheterotrophic plants derive carbon and other nutrients from root-associated fungi and have lost the ability to photosynthesize. While mycoheterotroph plastomes are often degraded compared with green plants, the effect of this unusual symbiosis on mitochondrial genome evolution is unknown. By providing the first complete organelle genome data from Polygalaceae, one of only three eudicot families that developed mycoheterotrophy, we explore how both organellar genomes evolved after loss of photosynthesis. Methods We sequenced and assembled four complete plastid genomes and a mitochondrial genome from species of Polygalaceae, focusing on non-photosynthetic Epirixanthes. We compared these genomes with those of other mycoheterotroph and parasitic plant lineages, and assessed whether organelle genes in Epirixanthes experienced relaxed or intensified selection compared with autotrophic relatives. Key Results Plastomes of two species of Epirixanthes have become substantially degraded compared with that of autotrophic Polygala. Although the lack of photosynthesis is presumably homologous in the genus, the surveyed Epirixanthes species have marked differences in terms of plastome size, structural rearrangements, gene content and substitution rates. Remarkably, both apparently replaced a canonical plastid inverted repeat with large directly repeated sequences. The mitogenome of E. elongata incorporated a considerable number of fossilized plastid genes, by intracellular transfer from an ancestor with a less degraded plastome. Both plastid and mitochondrial genes in E. elongata have increased substitution rates, but the plastid genes of E. pallida do not. Despite this, both species have similar selection patterns operating on plastid housekeeping genes. Conclusions Plastome evolution largely fits with patterns of gene degradation seen in other heterotrophic plants, but includes highly unusual directly duplicated regions. The causes of rate elevation in the sequenced Epirixanthes mitogenome and of rate differences in plastomes of related mycoheterotrophic species are not currently understood.
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- 2019
3. Cryptic species in an ancient flowering‐plant lineage (Hydatellaceae, Nymphaeales) revealed by molecular and micromorphological data
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Oriane Hidalgo, Margarita V. Remizowa, Sean W. Graham, Vivienne K. Y. Lam, Jaume Pellicer, Isabel Marques, Dmitry D. Sokoloff, Terry D. Macfarlane, and Paula J. Rudall
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Species complex ,Nymphaeales ,biology ,Evolutionary biology ,Lineage (evolution) ,Trithuria ,Flowering plant ,Plant Science ,Hydatellaceae ,biology.organism_classification ,Genome size ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Fruit anatomy - Published
- 2019
4. A new self-assessment teaching assistant survey for growth and development
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Jaclyn Dee, Keith Mewis, Shannon Obradovich, Vivienne K. Y. Lam, and Alice Cassidy
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Self-assessment ,Medical education ,education.field_of_study ,Reflective practice ,Professional development ,Population ,Prior learning ,Teaching assistant ,self-assessment ,lcsh:Education (General) ,Education ,Mentorship ,Graduate students ,reflective practice ,survey ,mentorship ,lcsh:L7-991 ,Psychology ,education ,teaching assistant training - Abstract
During their time as Teaching Assistants (TAs), graduate students develop a variety of skills, knowledge, and attitudes, based on teaching and related facilitation experiences. As TAs move on to future opportunities, their prior experiences form a foundation upon which additional teaching experience builds. Presently, there are few tools to gauge pedagogical growth during graduate student involvement as TAs in a specific post-secondary course, or as a consequence of their participation in a specialized TA training or teaching program. We created a model for TA development in SCIE 113 (First-year Seminar in Science) at the University of British Columbia. Based on this model, we designed a new survey for TAs to self-assess skills, knowledge and attitudes that they bring with them from prior experience, and those that they develop or further during their time as a TA in SCIE113. We administered the survey to 18 current and past SCIE 113 TAs as of December 2015, representing the complete population of TAs. The results showed that SCIE 113 TAs with similar levels of experience shared similar skills, knowledge, and attitudes as assessed by this survey. Those TAs with the most experience had greater abilities in roles previously identified as unique to the course. Others working with graduate students can use or adapt the survey questions to investigate and stimulate the growth of TAs in their course or program.
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- 2018
5. Phylogenomic inferencein extremis: A case study with mycoheterotroph plastomes
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Sean W. Graham, Vincent S. F. T. Merckx, Gwynne S. Lim, Kurt M. Neubig, Marybel Soto Gomez, Hayley Darby, Tomohisa Yukawa, J. Richard Abbott, Gemma E. Beatty, Vivienne K. Y. Lam, and Jim Provan
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0106 biological sciences ,0301 basic medicine ,Burmanniaceae ,DNA, Plant ,Genome, Plastid ,Plant Science ,Biology ,Genes, Plant ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Genome ,Evolution, Molecular ,Magnoliopsida ,03 medical and health sciences ,Dioscoreales ,Genetics ,Amino Acids ,Photosynthesis ,Orchidaceae ,Phylogeny ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Plant Proteins ,2. Zero hunger ,Long branch attraction ,Models, Genetic ,Phylogenetic tree ,Corsiaceae ,Fungi ,Heterotrophic Processes ,Genomics ,Gentianaceae ,15. Life on land ,Thismiaceae ,biology.organism_classification ,Biological Evolution ,Petrosaviaceae ,030104 developmental biology ,Evolutionary biology ,Ericaceae ,Genome, Plant - Abstract
Premise of the study Phylogenomic studies employing large numbers of genes, including those based on plastid genomes (plastomes), are becoming common. Nonphotosynthetic plants such as mycoheterotrophs (which rely on root-associated fungi for essential nutrients, including carbon) tend to have highly elevated rates of plastome evolution, substantial genome reduction, or both. Mycoheterotroph plastomes therefore provide excellent test cases for investigating how extreme conditions impact phylogenomic inference. Methods We used parsimony and likelihood analysis of protein-coding gene sets from published and newly completed plastomes to infer the phylogenetic placement of taxa from the 10 angiosperm families in which mycoheterotrophy evolved. Key results Despite multiple very long branches that reflect elevated substitution rates, and frequently patchy gene recovery due to genome reduction, inferred phylogenetic placements of most mycoheterotrophic lineages in DNA-based likelihood analyses are both well supported and congruent with other studies. Amino-acid-based likelihood placements are broadly consistent with DNA-based inferences, but extremely rate-elevated taxa can have unexpected placements-albeit with weak support. In contrast, parsimony analysis is strongly misled by long-branch attraction among many distantly related mycoheterotrophic monocots. Conclusions Mycoheterotrophic plastomes provide challenging cases for phylogenomic inference, as substitutional rates can be elevated and genome reduction can lead to sparse gene recovery. Nonetheless, diverse likelihood frameworks provide generally well-supported and mutually concordant phylogenetic placements of mycoheterotrophs, consistent with recent phylogenetic studies and angiosperm-wide classifications. Previous predictions of parallel photosynthesis loss within families are supported for Burmanniaceae, Ericaceae, Gentianaceae, and Orchidaceae. Burmanniaceae and Thismiaceae should not be combined as a single family in Dioscoreales.
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- 2018
6. Phylogenomics and historical biogeography of the monocot order Liliales: out of Australia and through Antarctica
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Vivienne K. Y. Lam, Sean W. Graham, William J. D. Iles, Daniel Spalink, Mercedes Ames, Wendy B. Zomlefer, Marybel Soto Gomez, Dennis W. Stevenson, Isabel Marques, Jackson R. Moeller, Barbara G. Briggs, Alejandro Zuluaga, Thomas J. Givnish, and Stephanie P. Lyon
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0106 biological sciences ,0301 basic medicine ,biology ,Ecology ,Corsiaceae ,Biogeography ,Colchicaceae ,Campynemataceae ,15. Life on land ,biology.organism_classification ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,03 medical and health sciences ,Melanthiaceae ,030104 developmental biology ,Liliales ,Philesiaceae ,Ripogonum ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics - Abstract
We present the first phylogenomic analysis of relationships among all ten families of Liliales, based on 75 plastid genes from 35 species in 29 genera, and 97 additional plastomes stratified across angiosperm lineages. We used a supermatrix approach to extend our analysis to 58 of 64 genera of Liliales, and calibrated the resulting phylogeny against 17 fossil dates to produce a new timeline for monocot evolution. Liliales diverged from other monocots 124 Mya and began splitting into separate families 113 Mya. Our data support an Australian origin for Liliales, with close relationships between three pairs of lineages (Corsiaceae/Campynemataceae, Philesiaceae/Ripogonaceae, tribes Alstroemerieae/Luzuriageae) in South America and Australia or New Zealand reflecting teleconnections of these areas via Antarctica. Long-distance dispersal (LDD) across the Pacific and Tasman Sea led to re-invasion of New Zealand by two lineages (Luzuriaga, Ripogonum); LDD allowed Campynemanthe to colonize New Caledonia after its submergence until 37 Mya. LDD permitted Colchicaceae to invade East Asia and Africa from Australia, and re-invade Africa from Australia. Periodic desert greening permitted Gloriosa and Iphigenia to colonize Southeast Asia overland from Africa, and Androcymbium-Colchicum to invade the Mediterranean from South Africa. Melanthiaceae and Liliaceae crossed the Bering land-bridge several times from the Miocene to the Pleistocene.
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- 2016
7. Monocot plastid phylogenomics, timeline, net rates of species diversification, the power of multi-gene analyses, and a functional model for the origin of monocots
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Jerrold I. Davis, Claude W. dePamphilis, Wendy B. Zomlefer, Dennis W. Stevenson, Marybel Soto Gomez, William J. D. Iles, Vivienne K. Y. Lam, Cécile Ané, Jeffrey M. Saarela, Daniel Spalink, Alejandro Zuluaga, Craig F. Barrett, Jim Leebens-Mack, Sean W. Graham, Maria A. Gandolfo, Chelsea D. Specht, J. Chris Pires, Danilo José Lima de Sousa, Thomas J. Givnish, and Chodon Sass
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0106 biological sciences ,0301 basic medicine ,Lemnoideae ,Genetic Speciation ,Genome, Plastid ,Zingiberales ,Plant Science ,Hydatellaceae ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Asparagales ,03 medical and health sciences ,Magnoliopsida ,Nymphaeales ,Phylogenomics ,Genetics ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Phylogeny ,biology ,15. Life on land ,Thismiaceae ,biology.organism_classification ,Arecales ,030104 developmental biology ,Evolutionary biology ,Molecular phylogenetics ,DNA, Intergenic - Abstract
PREMISE OF THE STUDY We present the first plastome phylogeny encompassing all 77 monocot families, estimate branch support, and infer monocot-wide divergence times and rates of species diversification. METHODS We conducted maximum likelihood analyses of phylogeny and BAMM studies of diversification rates based on 77 plastid genes across 545 monocots and 22 outgroups. We quantified how branch support and ascertainment vary with gene number, branch length, and branch depth. KEY RESULTS Phylogenomic analyses shift the placement of 16 families in relation to earlier studies based on four plastid genes, add seven families, date the divergence between monocots and eudicots+Ceratophyllum at 136 Mya, successfully place all mycoheterotrophic taxa examined, and support recognizing Taccaceae and Thismiaceae as separate families and Arecales and Dasypogonales as separate orders. Only 45% of interfamilial divergences occurred after the Cretaceous. Net species diversification underwent four large-scale accelerations in PACMAD-BOP Poaceae, Asparagales sister to Doryanthaceae, Orchidoideae-Epidendroideae, and Araceae sister to Lemnoideae, each associated with specific ecological/morphological shifts. Branch ascertainment and support across monocots increase with gene number and branch length, and decrease with relative branch depth. Analysis of entire plastomes in Zingiberales quantifies the importance of non-coding regions in identifying and supporting short, deep branches. CONCLUSIONS We provide the first resolved, well-supported monocot phylogeny and timeline spanning all families, and quantify the significant contribution of plastome-scale data to resolving short, deep branches. We outline a new functional model for the evolution of monocots and their diagnostic morphological traits from submersed aquatic ancestors, supported by convergent evolution of many of these traits in aquatic Hydatellaceae (Nymphaeales).
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- 2018
8. Evolution of Geosiris (Iridaceae): historical biogeography and plastid-genome evolution in a genus of non-photosynthetic tropical rainforest herbs disjunct across the Indian Ocean
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Darren M. Crayn, Vivienne K. Y. Lam, Wesley K. Gerelle, Sean W. Graham, Elizabeth M. Joyce, and Lars Nauheimer
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0301 basic medicine ,biology ,Lineage (evolution) ,Biogeography ,Plant Science ,Geosiris ,Disjunct ,biology.organism_classification ,03 medical and health sciences ,Monophyly ,030104 developmental biology ,Taxon ,Genus ,Evolutionary biology ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Tropical rainforest - Abstract
Mycoheterotrophs, i.e. plants that acquire carbon from root-associated soil fungi, often have highly degraded plastomes, reflecting relaxed selective constraints on plastid genes following the loss of photosynthesis. Geosiris Baill. is the only mycoheterotrophic genus in Iridaceae and comprises two species in Madagascar and nearby islands, and a third recently discovered species in north-eastern Australia. Here, we characterise the plastomes of the Australian and one Madagascan species to compare patterns of plastome degradation in relation to autotrophic and other mycoheterotrophic taxa and investigate the evolutionary and biogeographical history of the genus in Iridaceae. Both examined species have lost approximately half their plastid-encoded genes and a small but significant reduction in purifying selection in retained non-photosynthetic genes was observed. Geosiris is confirmed as monophyletic, with initial divergence of the genus occurring c. 53 million years ago, and subsequent diversification occurring c. 30 million years ago. Africa (including Madagascar) is reconstructed as the most likely ancestral area of the genus, implying a major range-expansion event of one lineage to Australia after its divergence in the Oligocene. Our study has highlighted the dynamic evolutionary history of Geosiris, contributed to the characterisation of mycoheterotrophic plastomes, and furthered our understanding of plastome structure and function.
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- 2018
9. The Highly Reduced Plastome of Mycoheterotrophic Sciaphila (Triuridaceae) Is Colinear with Its Green Relatives and Is under Strong Purifying Selection
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Marybel Soto Gomez, Vivienne K. Y. Lam, and Sean W. Graham
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0106 biological sciences ,Pandanales ,Genome, Plastid ,Molecular Sequence Data ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Genome ,Evolution, Molecular ,03 medical and health sciences ,dN/dS ratio ,plastid genome evolution ,Magnoliopsida ,Dioscoreales ,mycoheterotrophy ,Genome Size ,Phylogenetics ,Genetics ,Plastid ,Selection, Genetic ,genome reduction ,Genome size ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics ,Phylogeny ,030304 developmental biology ,0303 health sciences ,biology ,food and beverages ,gene loss ,15. Life on land ,biology.organism_classification ,Sciaphila ,Triuridaceae ,Research Article - Abstract
The enigmatic monocot family Triuridaceae provides a potentially useful model system for studying the effects of an ancient loss of photosynthesis on the plant plastid genome, as all of its members are mycoheterotrophic and achlorophyllous. However, few studies have placed the family in a comparative context, and its phylogenetic placement is only partly resolved. It was also unclear whether any taxa in this family have retained a plastid genome. Here, we used genome survey sequencing to retrieve plastid genome data for Sciaphila densiflora (Triuridaceae) and ten autotrophic relatives in the orders Dioscoreales and Pandanales. We recovered a highly reduced plastome for Sciaphila that is nearly colinear with Carludovica palmata, a photosynthetic relative that belongs to its sister group in Pandanales, Cyclanthaceae-Pandanaceae. This phylogenetic placement is well supported and robust to a broad range of analytical assumptions in maximum-likelihood inference, and is congruent with recent findings based on nuclear and mitochondrial evidence. The 28 genes retained in the S. densiflora plastid genome are involved in translation and other nonphotosynthetic functions, and we demonstrate that nearly all of the 18 protein-coding genes are under strong purifying selection. Our study confirms the utility of whole plastid genome data in phylogenetic studies of highly modified heterotrophic plants, even when they have substantially elevated rates of substitution.
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- 2015
10. Ancient Gondwana break‐up explains the distribution of the mycoheterotrophic family Corsiaceae (Liliales)
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Vivienne K. Y. Lam, Erik Smets, Paula J. Rudall, Stephanie P. Lyon, Constantijn B. Mennes, Vincent S. F. T. Merckx, and Sean W. Graham
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Gondwana ,Australasia ,historical biogeography ,Ecology ,Phylogenetic tree ,biology ,Liliales ,Corsiaceae ,southern South America ,Disjunct distribution ,Campynemataceae ,biology.organism_classification ,Monophyly ,Paleontology ,mycoheterotrophy ,Sister group ,beast ,vicariance ,Vicariance ,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics - Abstract
Aim Many plant families have a disjunct distribution across the southern Pacific Ocean, including the mycoheterotrophic family Corsiaceae, which provides a prime example of this biogeographical pattern. A better grasp of the family's evolutionary relationships is needed to understand its historical biogeography. We therefore aimed to (1) test the uncertain monophyly of Corsiaceae, (2) define its phylogenetic position, and (3) estimate divergence times for the family, allowing us to assess whether the distribution of the family is the result of vicariance. Location Southern South America and Australasia. Methods We analysed various combinations of mitochondrial and nuclear data to address the monophyly, phylogenetic position and age of Corsiaceae. To test its monophyly, we used a three-locus data set including most monocot orders, and to infer its exact phylogenetic position, we used a five-locus extended data set. We corroborated these findings using an independent plastome dataset. We then used a two-locus dataset with taxa from all monocot orders, and a three-locus dataset containing only taxa of Liliales, to estimate divergence times using a fossil-calibrated uncorrelated lognormal relaxed-clock approach. Results Corsiaceae is a monophyletic family and the sister group of Campynemataceae. This clade is the sister group of all other Liliales. The crown age of Corsiaceae is estimated to be 53 Ma (95% confidence interval 30–76 Ma). Main conclusions Corsiaceae is an ancient family of mycoheterotrophic plants, whose crown age overlaps with the plate-tectonic split of Gondwana, consistent with a vicariance-based explanation for its current distribution.
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- 2015
11. Plastomes on the edge: the evolutionary breakdown of mycoheterotroph plastid genomes
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Vincent S. F. T. Merckx, Sean W. Graham, and Vivienne K. Y. Lam
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0301 basic medicine ,Comparative genomics ,Genetics ,biology ,Models, Genetic ,Physiology ,Protein subunit ,RuBisCO ,Genome, Plastid ,Fungi ,Heterotrophic Processes ,Plant Science ,Genome ,Evolution, Molecular ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,030104 developmental biology ,Chloroplast DNA ,chemistry ,RNA polymerase ,Botany ,Transfer RNA ,biology.protein ,Photosynthesis ,Gene - Abstract
Contents 48 I. 48 II. 50 III. 53 54 References 54 SUMMARY: We examine recent evidence for ratchet-like genome degradation in mycoheterotrophs, plants that obtain nutrition from fungi. Initial loss of the NADH dehydrogenase-like (NDH) complex may often set off an irreversible evolutionary cascade of photosynthetic gene losses. Genes for plastid-encoded subunits of RNA polymerase and photosynthetic enzymes with secondary functions (Rubisco and ATP synthase) can persist initially, with nonsynchronous and quite broad windows in the relative timing of their loss. Delayed losses of five core nonbioenergetic genes (especially trnE and accD, which respectively code for glutamyl tRNA and a subunit of acetyl-CoA carboxylase) probably explain long-term persistence of heterotrophic plastomes. The observed range of changes of mycoheterotroph plastomes is similar to that of holoparasites, although greater diversity of both probably remains to be discovered. These patterns of gene loss/retention can inform research programs on plastome function.
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- 2016
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