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Diego F. Morales-Briones

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Postdoctoral researcher in the Princess Therese von Bayern chair for Systematics, Biodiversity & Evolution of Plants at LMU München | #IamABotanist | diegomoralesbriones.com

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 2d

Astragalean819: An Astragalean clade-specific bait set to resolve phylogenetic relationships in #Astragalus

New in #AppsPlantSci by Daniele Buono, Gudrun Kadereit & @dfmoralesb.bsky.social

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #phylogenetics #botany #Fabaceae #plantscience

Coalescent species tree inferred by ASTRAL-Pro based on 819 homologous gene trees. Numbers to the right of nodes indicate local posterior probability. Pie charts at internal nodes indicate the percentage of quartets in gene trees that agree with the shown main topology (green; average 60.6%, minimum 39.3%, maximum 92.6%), the first alternative topology (yellow; average 18.6%, minimum 3.9%, maximum 36.9%), and the second alternative topology (orange; average 20.8%, minimum 3.5%, maximum 39.4%).

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Aug 19

Building a robust backbone for #Astragalus using a clade-specific target enrichment bait set

New #AJB research by Daniele Buono, Gudrun Kadereit, Aaron Liston, Shahin Zarre & Diego Morales-Briones

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience #Fabaceae

Herbarium specimen of Astragalus onobrychis L., one of about 22,000 Astragalus treasures in Munich’s collection gathered from every continent.

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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · Aug 14

Advancing phylogenomics in #Amaranthaceae s.s.: Development and application of a new nuclear target enrichment bait set

New in #AppsPlantSci by ‪@tinakiedaisch.bsky.social, Kadereit, Žerdoner Čalasan & @dfmoralesb.bsky.social

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany #phylogenomics

Violin plot showing the number of recovered genes reaching 50% (solid line) and 75% (dotted line) of the reference length across the five major clades of Amaranthaceae s.s., as well as the two genera Bosea and Charpentiera.

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Diego F. Morales-Briones @dfmoralesb.bsky.social · Aug 14

Happy to see this one out. We did a phylogenetic analysis of African Sesuvium using herbarium collections and genome skimming. We assembled ~9000 loci from orthologous genes identified from transcriptome data. We also described a new species! 🌿 #evobio #iamabotanist

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Phylogenomics and Systematics of African Sesuvium (Aizoaceae)

Sesuvium (Sesuvioideae-Aizoaceae) comprises leaf succulent annual and perennial herbs distributed in coastal or saline sites of subtropical and tropical regions. Some species of the genus tolerate hig...

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Diego F. Morales-Briones @dfmoralesb.bsky.social · Nov 22

Excited to see this one out! We inferred a new backbone for Astragalus with a custom bait set and found some interesting things. This is the first ms of PhD student Daniele Buono that I have the chance to advise at LMU. More to come! #evobio @aaronliston.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Building a robust backbone for Astragalus (Fabaceae) using a clade-specific target enrichment bait set

With over 3100 species, Astragalus (Fabaceae) has long fascinated botanists as the largest genus of flowering plants. With an origin in the Middle Miocene, Astragalus has one of the highest diversific...

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Diego F. Morales-Briones @dfmoralesb.bsky.social · Nov 21

Thanks!

Diego F. Morales-Briones @dfmoralesb.bsky.social · Nov 21

I'd like to be added. @dfmoralesb.bsky.social

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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · Nov 19

Here's a starter pack for early career researchers in evolutionary biology. I prioritized the most-junior folks, and this list quickly filled up with undergrads, grad students, and postdocs. Might do another list later, but I'm tired. Have fun everyone! 🐒 #evobio

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Diego F. Morales-Briones @dfmoralesb.bsky.social · Nov 17

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Diego F. Morales-Briones @dfmoralesb.bsky.social · Nov 15

This is great. I’d like to be included. Thanks!

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