Pedicularis is a spectacularly diverse genus of flowering plants in the Hengduan Mountains of south-central China.
Phylogenomics in Pedicularis ser. Longiflorae: I am assembling genomes for ten species in Pedicularis ser. Longiflorae to study of the effect of recombination map variation and species tree parameters on genealogical variation along chromosomes. For each of the ten species I am inferring a recombination landscape using modern population genetic inference methods (eg iSMC) with low-coverage resequencing data. I am combining these recombination landscapes with species tree parameters inferred with existing methods. I plan to apply new methods like Argweaver-D to incorporate the species tree models and recombination landscapes, inferring ancestral recombination graphs and identifying sites in the genome that are introgressed or under selection.
Divergence in floral morphology between populations of P. cranolopha