New phylogenomic tree of angiosperms published in Nature
This landmark paper is the result of ca. 9 years of coordinated work and includes the first comprehensively sampled phylogenomic tree of the flowering plants (all 64 orders, all 416 families and 7923 genera included), based on genome-wide data (353 nuclear genes, most newly sequenced). Previous big trees were based on only a handful of genes or much fewer taxa. It confirms many suspicions regarding relationships (with some surprises), but importantly it reveals a detailed picture of diversification dynamics of flowering plants through time. Jurriaan de Vos, as one of 279 co-authors, started contributing to this study prior to his arrival in Basel in 2017, including leading the sampling efforts in parts of Caryophyllales, Oxalidales, and Sapindales.
Zuntini, A.R., Carruthers, T., Maurin, O. et al. Phylogenomics and the rise of the angiosperms. Nature (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07324-0