Journal
NEW PHYTOLOGIST
Volume 226, Issue 4, Pages 1012-1017Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/nph.15987
Keywords
interspecific gene flow; oak biodiversity; oak genomics; plant resistance; plant speciation; Quercus; tree longevity; tree mutation rates
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- French ANR [11-BSV6-009-021]
- France Genomique national infrastructure [ANR-10-INBS-09]
- European Research Council under European Union [339728]
- ANR BirdIslandGenomic [ANR-14-CE02-0002]
- European Research Council (ERC) [339728] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-14-CE02-0002] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
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Throughout the Northern Hemisphere, human societies, political systems, and religions have appropriated oaks in symbolic representations. In this review, we explore the possible associations between recent genetic and genomic findings and the symbolic representations of oaks. We first consider the ways in which evolutionary history during the Holocene has tightened links between humans and oaks in Europe, and how this may have led to symbolic representations. We then show how recent findings concerning the structure and evolution of the oak genome have provided additional knowledge about symbolic representations, such as longevity, cohesiveness, and robustness.
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