Lithocarpus craibianus Genome sequencing

Evergreen Fagaceae is a diverse and ecological dominant group in tropical Southeast Asia. They are often used in the pollen record to indicate cooler wet climates in the past and their current distribution indicates that they cannot tolerate seasonal climates. For these reasons, the family is a good model group for the historical distribution of evergreen tropical forests in Southeast Asia and the future response of these trees in global climate change. Additionally, the evolution of fruit morphology is under strong selection pressure from seed predation and dispersal, including the repeated convergent evolution of a novel fruit type. This is a continuation of study SRP001298.