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… of the model plant  Marchantia polymorpha. Commonly known as liverwort, this was done to gain insights into gene … thus allowing them to spread across most of the plant’s ecosystems. The Impact For decades, the liverwort  M. … 35 major evolutionary plant lineages in the  Open Green Genomes Initiative , a project supported by the U.S. …

… are present in more than two copies, a condition known as polyploidy. The multiple copies arise from past … each ancestor is called a subgenome. Session and Rokhsar, building on work with former JGI postdoc Jarrod Chapman, … developed a method to correctly identify polyploid subgenomes without needing to know the genomes of their …

… in the strongly biased representation of sequenced genomes in the public domain, the bulk of which belong to … relationships and to provide valuable reference genomes in under-populated areas of the tree of life, as reference genomes are critical to serve as phylogenetic anchors for …

… is also a faculty scientist in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area.] …