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<journal-id>2007-4298</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Botanical Sciences]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Bot. sci]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2007-4298</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Sociedad Botánica de México A.C.]]></publisher-name>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[The new generation of sequencing and its application in population genetics, phylogeography, and systematics]]></article-title>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad de Guadalajara Instituto de Botánica Departamento de Botánica y Zoología]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Zapopan Jalisco]]></addr-line>
<country>México</country>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Laboratorio Nacional de Identificación y Caracterización Vegetal  ]]></institution>
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<country>México</country>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Morelia Michoacán]]></addr-line>
<country>México</country>
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<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán Campus de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias Departamento de Ecología Tropical]]></institution>
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<country>México</country>
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<addr-line><![CDATA[ Mexico City]]></addr-line>
<country>México</country>
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<year>2025</year>
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<month>00</month>
<year>2025</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>103</volume>
<numero>spe</numero>
<fpage>1</fpage>
<lpage>3</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2007-42982025000500001&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2007-42982025000500001&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2007-42982025000500001&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract The advent of next-generation sequencing (NGS) has dismantled longstanding barriers in evolutionary biology. Once constrained by limited molecular markers, researchers now navigate vast genomic landscapes to reconstruct species histories, map adaptive loci, resolve taxonomic disputes, and investigate plant-microbe interactions. This special issue highlights how NGS tools-from ddRAD-seq to whole-genome skimming-are redefining population genetics, phylogeography, systematics, and ecology, offering insights at scales previously unimaginable.]]></p></abstract>
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