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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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CAM #photosynthesis discovered for the first time in a carnivorous plant

Scientists from @SNSB and @lmumuenchen.bsky.social have found out in experiments with Pinguicula (butterworts).

Read more open access in our journal Plant Biology
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Yes, we CAM! First evidence of CAM photosynthesis in a carnivorous plant
Evidence for weak, facultative CAM is reported for the first time in a carnivorous plant, i.e., in Mexican representatives of Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae).
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November 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Reposted by Diego F. Morales-Briones
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Astragalean819: An Astragalean clade-specific bait set to resolve phylogenetic relationships in #Astragalus

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

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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%).
October 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Reposted by Diego F. Morales-Briones
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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.
August 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Reposted by Diego F. Morales-Briones
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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.
August 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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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

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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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August 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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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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November 22, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Reposted by Diego F. Morales-Briones
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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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November 19, 2024 at 2:59 AM