Plant Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolutionary Genomics IV

Dear Colleagues,

The primary aim of molecular phylogenetics and phylogenomics regarding its part in the genomics era is to infer the evolutionary relationships of living organisms by comparing the structures of their information macromolecules and whole genomes. However, this does not limit the role of molecular phylogenetic approaches in biological research. Molecular phylogenetics and phylogenomics now serve as blueprints for studies of genome organization and investigations in almost all biological disciplines. The evolutionary paradigm is a framework for studying the structural and functional basis of living beings. It is applied 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, comparative genomics, phylotranscriptomics, gene families’ structure and evolution, cell organelles genomics, DNA barcoding and metabarcoding, molecular ecology and biodiversity, correspondence between molecular and morphological evolution, as well as the bioinformatics and laboratory methods of the aforementioned studies.

Prof. Dr. Alex Troitsky
Guest Editor

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