Molecular mechanisms of adaptive evolution in wild animals and plants

Y Hu, X Wang, Y Xu, H Yang, Z Tong, R Tian… - Science China Life …, 2023‏ - Springer
Wild animals and plants have developed a variety of adaptive traits driven by adaptive
evolution, an important strategy for species survival and persistence. Uncovering the …

Current status of community resources and priorities for weed genomics research

J Montgomery, S Morran, DR MacGregor, JS McElroy… - Genome biology, 2024‏ - Springer
Weeds are attractive models for basic and applied research due to their impacts on
agricultural systems and capacity to swiftly adapt in response to anthropogenic selection …

Cycles of satellite and transposon evolution in Arabidopsis centromeres

P Wlodzimierz, FA Rabanal, R Burns, M Naish… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
Centromeres are critical for cell division, loading CENH3 or CENPA histone variant
nucleosomes, directing kinetochore formation and allowing chromosome segregation …

A pan-genome of 69 Arabidopsis thaliana accessions reveals a conserved genome structure throughout the global species range

Q Lian, B Huettel, B Walkemeier, B Mayjonade… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Although originally primarily a system for functional biology, Arabidopsis thaliana has, owing
to its broad geographical distribution and adaptation to diverse environments, developed …

A species-wide inventory of NLR genes and alleles in Arabidopsis thaliana

AL Van de Weyer, F Monteiro, OJ Furzer, MT Nishimura… - Cell, 2019‏ - cell.com
Infectious disease is both a major force of selection in nature and a prime cause of yield loss
in agriculture. In plants, disease resistance is often conferred by nucleotide-binding leucine …

Chromosome-level assemblies of multiple Arabidopsis genomes reveal hotspots of rearrangements with altered evolutionary dynamics

WB Jiao, K Schneeberger - Nature communications, 2020‏ - nature.com
Despite hundreds of sequenced Arabidopsis genomes, very little is known about the degree
of genomic collinearity within single species, due to the low number of chromosome-level …

The pan-genome and local adaptation of Arabidopsis thaliana

M Kang, H Wu, H Liu, W Liu, M Zhu, Y Han… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
Arabidopsis thaliana serves as a model species for investigating various aspects of plant
biology. However, the contribution of genomic structural variations (SVs) and their associate …

Using herbaria to study global environmental change

PLM Lang, FM Willems, JF Scheepens… - New …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
During the last centuries, humans have transformed global ecosystems. With their temporal
dimension, herbaria provide the otherwise scarce long‐term data crucial for tracking …

A community-maintained standard library of population genetic models

JR Adrion, CB Cole, N Dukler, JG Galloway… - elife, 2020‏ - elifesciences.org
The explosion in population genomic data demands ever more complex modes of analysis,
and increasingly, these analyses depend on sophisticated simulations. Recent advances in …

Environment-induced heritable variations are common in Arabidopsis thaliana

X Lin, J Yin, Y Wang, J Yao, QQ Li, V Latzel… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Parental or ancestral environments can induce heritable phenotypic changes, but whether
such environment-induced heritable changes are a common phenomenon remains …