Dr. Shu-Miaw Chaw（Distinguished Research Fellow, Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan）

2016. 02. 25 (Thu) 16:00 ~ 17:00

SeminarRoom 3, Myodaiji Campus

Lab. Evol. Biol. Mitsuyasu Hasebe（7546）

  One of most arguable issues in seed plant evolution is the phylogeny of conifers. Based on the morphology, nobody suspected the monophyly but Dr. Chaw’s group and others found that a part of conifers is sister to the enigmatic gymnosperms Gnetales rather than other conifers, indicating paraphyly of conifers. Dr. Chaw will review the present understanding of conifer phylogeny with incorporating their new results in chloroplast genome rearrangement.