Though polyploidy is an important aspect of the evolutionary genetics of both plants and
animals, the development of population genetic theory of polyploids has seriously lagged …

For decades a small number of model species have rightly occupied a privileged position in
laboratory experiments, but it is becoming increasingly clear that our knowledge of biology is …

The shift from outcrossing to selfing is common in flowering plants,, but the genomic
consequences and the speed at which they emerge remain poorly understood. An excellent …

Genetic drift is expected to remove polymorphism from populations over long periods of
time, with the rate of polymorphism loss being accelerated when species experience strong …

The extent that both positive and negative selection vary across different portions of plant
genomes remains poorly understood. Here, we sequence whole genomes of 13 Capsella …

Background With the considerable growth of available nucleotide sequence data over the
last decade, integrated and flexible analytical tools have become a necessity. In particular …

The evolutionary forces that maintain genetic variation in quantitative traits within
populations remain poorly understood. One hypothesis suggests that variation is under …

Hybrid seed lethality is a widespread type of reproductive barrier among angiosperm taxa,
that contributes to species divergence by preventing gene flow between natural …

Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon occurring in mammals and flowering
plants that causes genes to adopt a parent-of-origin-specific mode of expression. While the …

The shift from outcrossing to self-fertilization is among the most common evolutionary
transitions in flowering plants. Until recently, however, a genome-wide view of this transition …