Island plants with newly discovered reproductive traits have higher capacity for uniparental reproduction, supporting Baker's law

B Keller, B Alther, A Jiménez, K Koutroumpa… - Scientific Reports, 2024‏ - nature.com
Uniparental reproduction is advantageous when lack of mates limits outcrossing
opportunities in plants. Baker's law predicts an enrichment of uniparental reproduction in …

Unveiling the Genome-Wide Consequences of Range Expansion and Mating System Transitions in Primula vulgaris

E Mora-Carrera, RL Stubbs, G Potente… - Genome Biology and …, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
Genetic diversity is heterogeneously distributed among populations of the same species,
due to the joint effects of multiple demographic processes, including range contractions and …

The Primula edelbergii S‐locus is an example of a jum** supergene

G Potente, N Yousefi, B Keller… - Molecular Ecology …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Research on supergenes, non‐recombining genomic regions housing tightly linked genes
that control complex phenotypes, has recently gained prominence in genomics. Heterostyly …

Fate of a supergene in the shift from diploidy to polyploidy

E Mora Carrera, N Yousefi, G Potente, RL Stubbs… - bioRxiv, 2025‏ - biorxiv.org
Despite the evolutionary importance of supergenes, their properties in polyploids remain
unexplored. Polyploid genomes are expected to undergo chromosomal rearrangements and …