Several contributing factors have been implicated in evolutionary rate heterogeneity among
proteins, but their evolutionary mechanisms remain poorly characterized. The recently …

Dr. Harris has played a major role in the development of this organism as a model system.
Her previous version of the Chlamydomonas Sourcebook which published in 1989, has …

Strikingly consistent correlations between rates of coding-sequence evolution and gene
expression levels are apparent across taxa, but the biological causes behind the selective …

The sequences of proteins change at dramatically different rates. Unraveling the association
between this variability and cellular and ecological processes will enable a better …

Ploidy-variable species allow direct inference of the effects of chromosome copy number on
fundamental evolutionary processes. While an abundance of theoretical work suggests …

Despite its role as a reference organism in the plant sciences, the green alga
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii entirely lacks genomic resources from closely related species …

The synonymous substitution rate varies widely among species, but it is generally quite
stable within a genome due to the absence of strong selective pressures. In plants, plastid …

Toll-like receptor (TLR) signaling pathway was an important and evolutionarily conserved
innate immune pathway. Evolutionary lineage of this pathway in the Lophotrochozoans is …

De novo mutations are central for evolution, since they provide the raw material for natural
selection by regenerating genetic variation. However, studying de novo mutations is …

Volvocine algae are a group of chlorophytes that together comprise a unique model for
evolutionary and developmental biology. The species Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and …