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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 ...
Published in: The New phytologist
January 2018

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.

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The New phytologist

DOI

EISSN

1469-8137

ISSN

0028-646X

Publication Date

January 2018

Volume

217

Issue

1

Start / End Page

16 / 25

Related Subject Headings

  • Sphagnopsida
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Plant Biology & Botany
  • Phylogeny
  • Models, Biological
  • Genomics
  • Genome, Plant
  • Ecology
  • Biological Evolution
  • Adaptation, Physiological
 

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Weston, D. J., Turetsky, M. R., Johnson, M. G., Granath, G., Lindo, Z., Belyea, L. R., … Shaw, A. J. (2018). The Sphagnome Project: enabling ecological and evolutionary insights through a genus-level sequencing project. The New Phytologist, 217(1), 16–25. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14860
Weston, David J., Merritt R. Turetsky, Matthew G. Johnson, Gustaf Granath, Zoë Lindo, Lisa R. Belyea, Steven K. Rice, et al. “The Sphagnome Project: enabling ecological and evolutionary insights through a genus-level sequencing project.The New Phytologist 217, no. 1 (January 2018): 16–25. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14860.
Weston DJ, Turetsky MR, Johnson MG, Granath G, Lindo Z, Belyea LR, et al. The Sphagnome Project: enabling ecological and evolutionary insights through a genus-level sequencing project. The New phytologist. 2018 Jan;217(1):16–25.
Weston, David J., et al. “The Sphagnome Project: enabling ecological and evolutionary insights through a genus-level sequencing project.The New Phytologist, vol. 217, no. 1, Jan. 2018, pp. 16–25. Epmc, doi:10.1111/nph.14860.
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 E-S, Ullrich KK, Carrell A, Benscoter BW, Chen J-G, Oke TA, Nilsson MB, Ranjan P, Jacobson D, Lilleskov EA, Clymo RS, Shaw AJ. The Sphagnome Project: enabling ecological and evolutionary insights through a genus-level sequencing project. The New phytologist. 2018 Jan;217(1):16–25.
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Published In

The New phytologist

DOI

EISSN

1469-8137

ISSN

0028-646X

Publication Date

January 2018

Volume

217

Issue

1

Start / End Page

16 / 25

Related Subject Headings

  • Sphagnopsida
  • Sequence Analysis, DNA
  • Plant Biology & Botany
  • Phylogeny
  • Models, Biological
  • Genomics
  • Genome, Plant
  • Ecology
  • Biological Evolution
  • Adaptation, Physiological