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A Bioinformatic Approach To Exploring Land Plant Evolution, Lauren Margaret Orton
A Bioinformatic Approach To Exploring Land Plant Evolution, Lauren Margaret Orton
Graduate Research Theses & Dissertations
Today, researchers are inundated with an overwhelming amount of data due to advances in DNA sequencing technologies. This has benefited the fields of both bioinformatics and phylogenomics substantially. With the ability to increase sampling at both the taxonomic and molecular levels, we are now able to produce robust phylogenomic reconstructions and better discern relationships between taxa.
The goals of this dissertation are in two distinct parts: 1) to advance the understanding of land plant terrestrialization and evolution through examination of the closest relative to the land plant lineage, a species of green algae; and 2) to explore evolution among a …