Extraordinary preservation of gene collinearity over three hundred million years revealed in homosporous lycophytes

• DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2312607121
• Publication Date: 2024-01-18T17:47:40Z
• Authors: Cheng Li; David Wickell; Li-Yaung Kuo; Xueqing Chen; Bao Nie; Xuezhu Liao; Dan Peng; Jiaojiao Ji; Jerry Jenkins; Mellissa Williams; Shengqiang Shu; Christopher Plott; Kerrie Barry; Shanmugam Rajasekar; Jane Grimwood; Xiaoxu Han; Shichao Sun; Zhuangwei Hou; Weijun He; Guanhua Dai; Cheng Sun; Jeremy Schmutz; James H. Leebens-...; Fay-Wei Li; Li Wang
• Keywords: Lineage (genetic); Collinearity

Homosporous lycophytes (Lycopodiaceae) are a deeply diverged lineage in the plant tree of life, having split from heterosporous (