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| | UMass Amherst: Biology Department -> Faculty -> Yin-Long Qiu |
 | | In my lab, we have been analyzing DNA sequences of several genes located in mitochondrial, chloroplast, and nuclear genomes from a large number of basal angiosperms, to reconstruct the early diversification patterns of angiosperms, which are the most dominant group in the modern earth's vegetation. |
 | | We identified an assemblage of taxa called ANITA (Amborella, Nymphaeales, Illiciales, Trimeniaceae, and Austrobaileya) as the earliest living angiosperms. |
 | | Through an international collaboration with two other labs, we are currently amassing an even larger data set, nine genes in total and approximately 16 kb from ~100 species, to resolve the remaining issues in basal angiosperm phylogeny, in particular, the origins of eudicots and monocots. |
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