Archeogenetics has been revolutionary, revealing insights into demographic history and recent positive selection. However, most studies to date have i......
The barley MLA nucleotide-binding leucine-rich-repeat (NLR) receptor and its orthologs confer recognition specificity to many fungal diseases, includi......
Characteristics of the new phenotypic variation introduced via mutation have broad implications in evolutionary and medical genetics. Standardized est......
An essential step toward reconstructing pathogen transmission and answering epidemiologically relevant questions from genomic data is obtaining pairwi......
Animals develop from juveniles to sexually mature adults through the action of steroid hormones. In insect metamorphosis, a surge of the steroid hormo......
Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPNs), including Heterorhabditis and Steinernema, are parasitic to insects and contain mutualistically symbiotic bacteria ......
We measured the floral bud transcriptome of 151 fully sequenced lines of Mimulus guttatus from one natural population. Thousands of single nucleotide ......
Multicellular organisms rely on cell-cell communication to exchange information necessary for developmental processes and metabolic homeostasis. Cell-......
Candida glabrata is the second most common etiological cause of worldwide systemic candidiasis in adult patients. Genome analysis of 68 isolates from ......
The number and placement of meiotic crossover events during meiosis have important implications for the fidelity of chromosome segregation as well as ......
Over the past 50 years, the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans has become established as one of the most powerful and widely used model organisms. T......
Splicing of precursor mRNA is an essential process for dividing cells, and splicing defects have been linked to aging and various chronic diseases. En......
Mono-methylation of histone H4 lysine 20 (H4K20me1) is catalyzed by Set8/KMT5A and regulates numerous aspects of genome organization and function. Los......