List of works - Guillaume Besnard

A simple method for high molecular-weight genomic DNA extraction suitable for long-read sequencing from spores of an obligate biotroph oomycete

scientific article published on 11 September 2020

Adaptive evolution of C(4) photosynthesis through recurrent lateral gene transfer.

scientific article

An ecological and evolutionary perspective on the parallel invasion of two cross-compatible trees ⬇️

scientific article

Anatomical enablers and the evolution of C4photosynthesis in grasses

scientific article (publication date: 24 December 2012)

Applying DNA barcoding for the study of geographical variation in host-parasitoid interactions

scientific article published on January 2011

C anatomy can evolve via a single developmental change

scientific article published on 17 December 2018

C4 Photosynthesis evolved in grasses via parallel adaptive genetic changes.

scientific article published on 5 July 2007

Causes and evolutionary significance of genetic convergence.

scientific article published on 3 August 2010

Coexistence of diploids and triploids in a Saharan relict olive: evidence from nuclear microsatellite and flow cytometry analyses

scientific article

Complex evolutionary history of two ecologically significant grass genera, Themeda and Heteropogon (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Andropogoneae)

scientific article published on 09 January 2021

Continued Adaptation of C4 Photosynthesis After an Initial Burst of Changes in the Andropogoneae Grasses

scientific article published on 07 October 2019

Contrasted histories of organelle and nuclear genomes underlying physiological diversification in a grass species

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

Contrasting dispersal histories of broad- and fine-leaved temperate Loliinae grasses: range expansion, founder events, and the roles of distance and barriers

scientific article published in 2017

Corrigendum: Contrasting dispersal histories of broad- and fine-leaved temperate Loliinae grasses: Range expansion, founder events and the roles of distance and barriers

scientific article published in 2017

Cultivated Olive Diversification at Local and Regional Scales: Evidence From the Genetic Characterization of French Genetic Resources

scientific article published on 24 December 2019

Duplication history and molecular evolution of the rbcS multigene family in angiosperms

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Effect of genetic convergence on phylogenetic inference

scientific article published on 14 December 2011

Evolution of C(4) phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in grasses, from genotype to phenotype

scientific article published on 6 November 2008

Evolutionary forces affecting synonymous variations in plant genomes.

scientific article

Evolutionary genomics of C4 photosynthesis in grasses requires a large species sampling

scientific article published on 23 June 2010

Evolutionary history, traits, and weediness inDigitaria(Poaceae: Panicoideae)

scientific article published in 2023

Evolutionary implications of C3 -C4 intermediates in the grass Alloteropsis semialata

scientific article published on 2 November 2015

Evolutionary insights on C4 photosynthetic subtypes in grasses from genomics and phylogenetics

scientific article

Evolutionary switch and genetic convergence on rbcL following the evolution of C4 photosynthesis

scientific article published on 11 August 2008

Evolutionary transcriptomics reveals the origins of olives and the genomic changes associated with their domestication

scientific article published on 11 July 2019

Extensive gene flow blurs phylogeographic but not phylogenetic signal in Olea europaea L.

scientific article published on 12 July 2006

Fast assembly of the mitochondrial genome of a plant parasitic nematode (Meloidogyne graminicola) using next generation sequencing.

scientific article published on 4 April 2014

From museums to genomics: old herbarium specimens shed light on a C3 to C4 transition

scientific article

From the Mediterranean to the Pacific: re-circumscription towards Notelaea s.l. and historical biogeography of a generic complex in Oleinae (Oleaceae)

scientific article published in 2022

Genetic origins and diversity of bushpigs from Madagascar (Potamochoerus larvatus, family Suidae)

scientific article published on 26 November 2020

Genetic variation in Loudetia simplex supports the presence of ancient grasslands in Madagascar

scientific article published in 2023

Genome biogeography reveals the intraspecific spread of adaptive mutations for a complex trait.

scientific article published on 14 November 2016

Genome skimming by shotgun sequencing helps resolve the phylogeny of a pantropical tree family

scientific article published on 2 April 2014

Genome structure and content of the rice root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne graminicola)

scientific article published on 13 September 2020

Genomic profiling of plastid DNA variation in the Mediterranean olive tree ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 10 May 2011)

Geographical structure of genetic diversity in Loudetia simplex (Poaceae) in Madagascar and South Africa

scientific article published on 13 November 2020

Glacial in situ survival in the Western Alps and polytopic autopolyploidy in Biscutella laevigata L. (Brassicaceae).

scientific article

Grass Functional Traits Differentiate Forest and Savanna in the Madagascar Central Highlands

scientific article published on 15 November 2018

Grass diversification in Madagascar: In situ radiation of two large C3 shade clades and support for a Miocene to Pliocene origin of C4 grassy biomes

Herbarium genomics retraces the origins of C4-specific carbonic anhydrase in Andropogoneae (Poaceae)

scientific article published on 11 July 2018

Herbarium-based science in the twenty-first century

scientific article published on 17 October 2018

High genetic diversity and clonal growth in relict populations of Olea europaea subsp. laperrinei (Oleaceae) from Hoggar, Algeria

scientific article

History of the invasive African olive tree in Australia and Hawaii: evidence for sequential bottlenecks and hybridization with the Mediterranean olive.

scientific article

How ancient forest fragmentation and riparian connectivity generate high levels of genetic diversity in a microendemic Malagasy tree

scientific article published in 2022

How anthropogenic changes may affect soil-borne parasite diversity? Plant-parasitic nematode communities associated with olive trees in Morocco as a case study

scientific article (publication date: 6 February 2017)

Hybridization boosts dispersal of two contrasted ecotypes in a grass species

scientific article published in 2022

Integrating phylogeny into studies of C4 variation in the grasses

scientific article published in January 2009

Intraspecific variability of the facultative meiotic parthenogenetic root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne graminicola) from rice fields in Vietnam.

scientific article

Intricate patterns of phylogenetic relationships in the olive family as inferred from multi-locus plastid and nuclear DNA sequence analyses: A close-up on Chionanthus and Noronhia (Oleaceae) ⬇️

scientific article published on February 13, 2013

Investigating pollination strategies in a changing world

scientific article published on 17 January 2022

Key changes in gene expression identified for different stages of C4 evolution in Alloteropsis semialata

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

Late Miocene origin and recent population collapse of the Malagasy savanna olive tree (Noronhia lowryi)

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

Lateral transfers of large DNA fragments spread functional genes among grasses

article

Madagascar's grasses and grasslands: anthropogenic or natural?

scientific article

Mitogenomics of Hesperelaea, an extinct genus of Oleaceae

scientific article published on 3 September 2016

Multiple introductions boosted genetic diversity in the invasive range of black cherry (Prunus serotina; Rosaceae). ⬇️

scientific article

Museomics illuminate the history of an extinct, paleoendemic plant lineage (Hesperelaea, Oleaceae) known from an 1875 collection from Guadalupe Island, Mexico

article

Museomics resolve the systematics of an endangered grass lineage endemic to north-western Madagascar

scientific article

Oligocene CO2 decline promoted C4 photosynthesis in grasses.

scientific article published on 20 December 2007

On the Close Relatedness of Two Rice-Parasitic Root-Knot Nematode Species and the Recent Expansion of in Southeast Asia ⬇️

article

On the origins and domestication of the olive: a review and perspectives

scientific article published on 26 December 2017

On the origins and domestication of the olive: a review and perspectives.

scientific article published on 30 January 2018

One-third of the plastid genes evolved under positive selection in PACMAD grasses

scientific article

Paternity tests support a diallelic self-incompatibility system in a wild olive (Olea europaea subsp. laperrinei, Oleaceae)

scientific article published on 05 February 2020

Photosynthetic innovation broadens the niche within a single species.

scientific article

Phylogenetics of Olea (Oleaceae) based on plastid and nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences: tertiary climatic shifts and lineage differentiation times

scientific article

Phylogenomics and taxonomy of Lecomtelleae (Poaceae), an isolated panicoid lineage from Madagascar

scientific article (publication date: October 2013)

Phylogenomics indicates the "living fossil" Isoetes diversified in the Cenozoic

scientific article published on 18 June 2020

Phylogenomics of C(4) photosynthesis in sedges (Cyperaceae): multiple appearances and genetic convergence.

scientific article

Phylogenomics using low-depth whole genome sequencing: A case study with the olive tribe

scientific article published on 13 May 2019

Plastid DNA variation in Prunus serotina var. serotina (Rosaceae), a North American tree invading Europe

Pollen-mediated gene flow in a highly fragmented landscape: consequences for defining a conservation strategy of the relict Laperrine's olive

scientific article

Primary domestication and early uses of the emblematic olive tree: palaeobotanical, historical and molecular evidence from the Middle East.

scientific article

Prospects on the evolutionary mitogenomics of plants: A case study on the olive family (Oleaceae).

scientific article published on 24 November 2017

Recovering the evolutionary history of crowned pigeons (Columbidae: Goura): implications for the biogeography and conservation of New Guinean lowland birds.

scientific article published on 30 November 2017

Resolving the Phylogeny of the Olive Family (Oleaceae): Confronting Information from Organellar and Nuclear Genomes

scientific article published on 16 December 2020

SILVOLIVE, a Germplasm Collection of Wild Subspecies With High Genetic Variability as a Source of Rootstocks and Resistance Genes for Olive Breeding

scientific article published on 28 May 2020

Shotgun sequencing of the mitochondrial genome of the Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea).

scientific article published on 9 February 2016

Single vs multiple independent olive domestications: the jury is (still) out.

scientific article published on 11 November 2015

Spatial segregation and realized niche shift during the parallel invasion of two olive subspecies in south-eastern Australia

article

The Genus Sartidia (Poaceae: Aristidoideae) in Madagascar

scholarly article by Maria S. Vorontsova et al published 1 August 2015 in Systematic Botany

The complex history of the olive tree: from Late Quaternary diversification of Mediterranean lineages to primary domestication in the northern Levant

scientific article (publication date: 7 April 2013)

The endemic ‘sugar canes’ of Madagascar (Poaceae, Saccharinae: Lasiorhachis) are close relatives of sorghum ⬇️

scientific article

The recent and rapid spread of Themeda triandra

Thlaspi caerulescens (Brassicaceae) population genetics in western Switzerland: is the genetic structure affected by natural variation of soil heavy metal concentrations?

scientific article published in March 2009

Three New Grass Records for Madagascar

scientific article published in 2014

Two independent C4 origins in Aristidoideae (Poaceae) revealed by the recruitment of distinct phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase genes

scientific article published on 20 November 2009

Valuing museum specimens: high-throughput DNA sequencing on historical collections of New Guinea crowned pigeons (Goura)

article published in 2015

Varietal tracing of virgin olive oils based on plastid DNA variation profiling.

scientific article

List of works by Guillaume Besnard

A simple method for high molecular-weight genomic DNA extraction suitable for long-read sequencing from spores of an obligate biotroph oomycete

Adaptive evolution of C(4) photosynthesis through recurrent lateral gene transfer.

An ecological and evolutionary perspective on the parallel invasion of two cross-compatible trees ⬇️

Anatomical enablers and the evolution of C4photosynthesis in grasses

Applying DNA barcoding for the study of geographical variation in host-parasitoid interactions

C anatomy can evolve via a single developmental change

C4 Photosynthesis evolved in grasses via parallel adaptive genetic changes.

Causes and evolutionary significance of genetic convergence.

Coexistence of diploids and triploids in a Saharan relict olive: evidence from nuclear microsatellite and flow cytometry analyses

Complex evolutionary history of two ecologically significant grass genera, <i>Themeda</i> and <i>Heteropogon</i> (Poaceae: Panicoideae: Andropogoneae)

Continued Adaptation of C4 Photosynthesis After an Initial Burst of Changes in the Andropogoneae Grasses

Contrasted histories of organelle and nuclear genomes underlying physiological diversification in a grass species

Contrasting dispersal histories of broad- and fine-leaved temperate Loliinae grasses: range expansion, founder events, and the roles of distance and barriers

Corrigendum: Contrasting dispersal histories of broad- and fine-leaved temperate Loliinae grasses: Range expansion, founder events and the roles of distance and barriers

Cultivated Olive Diversification at Local and Regional Scales: Evidence From the Genetic Characterization of French Genetic Resources

Duplication history and molecular evolution of the rbcS multigene family in angiosperms

Effect of genetic convergence on phylogenetic inference

Evolution of C(4) phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in grasses, from genotype to phenotype

Evolutionary forces affecting synonymous variations in plant genomes.

Evolutionary genomics of C4 photosynthesis in grasses requires a large species sampling

Evolutionary history, traits, and weediness in<i>Digitaria</i>(Poaceae: Panicoideae)

Evolutionary implications of C3 -C4 intermediates in the grass Alloteropsis semialata

Evolutionary insights on C4 photosynthetic subtypes in grasses from genomics and phylogenetics

Evolutionary switch and genetic convergence on rbcL following the evolution of C4 photosynthesis

Evolutionary transcriptomics reveals the origins of olives and the genomic changes associated with their domestication

Extensive gene flow blurs phylogeographic but not phylogenetic signal in Olea europaea L.

Fast assembly of the mitochondrial genome of a plant parasitic nematode (Meloidogyne graminicola) using next generation sequencing.

From museums to genomics: old herbarium specimens shed light on a C3 to C4 transition

From the Mediterranean to the Pacific: re-circumscription towards <i>Notelaea s.l.</i> and historical biogeography of a generic complex in Oleinae (Oleaceae)

Genetic origins and diversity of bushpigs from Madagascar (Potamochoerus larvatus, family Suidae)

Genetic variation in <i>Loudetia simplex</i> supports the presence of ancient grasslands in Madagascar

Genome biogeography reveals the intraspecific spread of adaptive mutations for a complex trait.

Genome skimming by shotgun sequencing helps resolve the phylogeny of a pantropical tree family

Genome structure and content of the rice root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne graminicola)

Genomic profiling of plastid DNA variation in the Mediterranean olive tree ⬇️

Geographical structure of genetic diversity in <i>Loudetia simplex</i> (Poaceae) in Madagascar and South Africa

Glacial in situ survival in the Western Alps and polytopic autopolyploidy in Biscutella laevigata L. (Brassicaceae).

Grass Functional Traits Differentiate Forest and Savanna in the Madagascar Central Highlands

Grass diversification in Madagascar: In situ radiation of two large C3 shade clades and support for a Miocene to Pliocene origin of C4 grassy biomes

Herbarium genomics retraces the origins of C<sub>4</sub>-specific carbonic anhydrase in Andropogoneae (Poaceae)

Herbarium-based science in the twenty-first century

High genetic diversity and clonal growth in relict populations of Olea europaea subsp. laperrinei (Oleaceae) from Hoggar, Algeria

History of the invasive African olive tree in Australia and Hawaii: evidence for sequential bottlenecks and hybridization with the Mediterranean olive.

How ancient forest fragmentation and riparian connectivity generate high levels of genetic diversity in a microendemic Malagasy tree

How anthropogenic changes may affect soil-borne parasite diversity? Plant-parasitic nematode communities associated with olive trees in Morocco as a case study

Hybridization boosts dispersal of two contrasted ecotypes in a grass species

Integrating phylogeny into studies of C4 variation in the grasses

Intraspecific variability of the facultative meiotic parthenogenetic root-knot nematode (Meloidogyne graminicola) from rice fields in Vietnam.

Intricate patterns of phylogenetic relationships in the olive family as inferred from multi-locus plastid and nuclear DNA sequence analyses: A close-up on Chionanthus and Noronhia (Oleaceae) ⬇️

Investigating pollination strategies in a changing world

Key changes in gene expression identified for different stages of C4 evolution in Alloteropsis semialata

Late Miocene origin and recent population collapse of the Malagasy savanna olive tree (Noronhia lowryi)

Lateral transfers of large DNA fragments spread functional genes among grasses

Madagascar's grasses and grasslands: anthropogenic or natural?

Mitogenomics of Hesperelaea, an extinct genus of Oleaceae

Multiple introductions boosted genetic diversity in the invasive range of black cherry (Prunus serotina; Rosaceae). ⬇️

Museomics illuminate the history of an extinct, paleoendemic plant lineage (Hesperelaea, Oleaceae) known from an 1875 collection from Guadalupe Island, Mexico

Museomics resolve the systematics of an endangered grass lineage endemic to north-western Madagascar

Oligocene CO2 decline promoted C4 photosynthesis in grasses.

On the Close Relatedness of Two Rice-Parasitic Root-Knot Nematode Species and the Recent Expansion of in Southeast Asia ⬇️

On the origins and domestication of the olive: a review and perspectives

On the origins and domestication of the olive: a review and perspectives.

One-third of the plastid genes evolved under positive selection in PACMAD grasses

Paternity tests support a diallelic self-incompatibility system in a wild olive (Olea europaea subsp. laperrinei, Oleaceae)

Photosynthetic innovation broadens the niche within a single species.

Phylogenetics of Olea (Oleaceae) based on plastid and nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences: tertiary climatic shifts and lineage differentiation times

Phylogenomics and taxonomy of Lecomtelleae (Poaceae), an isolated panicoid lineage from Madagascar

Phylogenomics indicates the "living fossil" Isoetes diversified in the Cenozoic

Phylogenomics of C(4) photosynthesis in sedges (Cyperaceae): multiple appearances and genetic convergence.

Phylogenomics using low-depth whole genome sequencing: A case study with the olive tribe

Plastid DNA variation in Prunus serotina var. serotina (Rosaceae), a North American tree invading Europe

Pollen-mediated gene flow in a highly fragmented landscape: consequences for defining a conservation strategy of the relict Laperrine's olive

Primary domestication and early uses of the emblematic olive tree: palaeobotanical, historical and molecular evidence from the Middle East.

Prospects on the evolutionary mitogenomics of plants: A case study on the olive family (Oleaceae).

Recovering the evolutionary history of crowned pigeons (Columbidae: Goura): implications for the biogeography and conservation of New Guinean lowland birds.

Resolving the Phylogeny of the Olive Family (Oleaceae): Confronting Information from Organellar and Nuclear Genomes

SILVOLIVE, a Germplasm Collection of Wild Subspecies With High Genetic Variability as a Source of Rootstocks and Resistance Genes for Olive Breeding

Shotgun sequencing of the mitochondrial genome of the Aldabra giant tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea).

Single vs multiple independent olive domestications: the jury is (still) out.