All Outputs (6)

The Evolutionary Genomics of Serpentine Adaptation (2020)
Journal Article
Konečná, V., Yant, L., & Kolář, F. (2020). The Evolutionary Genomics of Serpentine Adaptation. Frontiers in Plant Science, 11, Article 574616. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.574616

© Copyright © 2020 Konečná, Yant and Kolář. Serpentine barrens are among the most challenging settings for plant life. Representing a perfect storm of hazards, serpentines consist of broadly skewed elemental profiles, including abundant toxic metals... Read More about The Evolutionary Genomics of Serpentine Adaptation.

Help or hindrance? The evolutionary impact of whole-genome duplication on immunogenetic diversity and parasite load (2020)
Journal Article
Bell, E. A., Cable, J., Oliveira, C., Richardson, D. S., Yant, L., & Taylor, M. I. (2020). Help or hindrance? The evolutionary impact of whole-genome duplication on immunogenetic diversity and parasite load. Ecology and Evolution, https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6987

© 2020 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Whole-genome duplication (WGD) events occur in all kingdoms and have been hypothesized to promote adaptability. WGDs identified in the early history of vertebrates, teleo... Read More about Help or hindrance? The evolutionary impact of whole-genome duplication on immunogenetic diversity and parasite load.

Formation and diversification of a paradigm biosynthetic gene cluster in plants (2020)
Journal Article
Liu, Z., Cheema, J., Vigouroux, M., Hill, L., Reed, J., Paajanen, P., …Osbourn, A. (2020). Formation and diversification of a paradigm biosynthetic gene cluster in plants. Nature Communications, 11(1), Article 5354. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19153-6

© 2020, The Author(s). Numerous examples of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs), including for compounds of agricultural and medicinal importance, have now been discovered in plant genomes. However, little is known about how these complex traits are as... Read More about Formation and diversification of a paradigm biosynthetic gene cluster in plants.

A novel allele of ASY3 is associated with greater meiotic stability in autotetraploid Arabidopsis lyrata (2020)
Journal Article
Seear, P. J., France, M. G., Gregory, C. L., Heavens, D., Schmickl, R., Yant, L., & Higgins, J. D. (2020). A novel allele of ASY3 is associated with greater meiotic stability in autotetraploid Arabidopsis lyrata. PLoS Genetics, 16(7), Article e1008900. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008900

In this study we performed a genotype-phenotype association analysis of meiotic stability in 10 autotetraploid Arabidopsis lyrata and A. lyrata/A. arenosa hybrid populations collected from the Wachau region and East Austrian Forealps. The aim was to... Read More about A novel allele of ASY3 is associated with greater meiotic stability in autotetraploid Arabidopsis lyrata.

Polyploidy breaks speciation barriers in Australian burrowing frogs Neobatrachus (2020)
Journal Article
Novikova, P. Y., Brennan, I. G., Booker, W., Mahony, M., Doughty, P., Lemmon, A. R., …Donnellan, S. C. (2020). Polyploidy breaks speciation barriers in Australian burrowing frogs Neobatrachus. PLoS Genetics, 16(5), Article e1008769. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1008769

Polyploidy has played an important role in evolution across the tree of life but it is still unclear how polyploid lineages may persist after their initial formation. While both common and well-studied in plants, polyploidy is rare in animals and gen... Read More about Polyploidy breaks speciation barriers in Australian burrowing frogs Neobatrachus.

A novel allele of ASY3 promotes meiotic stability in autotetraploid Arabidopsis lyrata (2020)
Working Paper
Seear, P. J., France, M. G., Gregory, C. L., Heavens, D., Schmickl, R., Yant, L., & Higgins, J. D. A novel allele of ASY3 promotes meiotic stability in autotetraploid Arabidopsis lyrata

In this study we performed a genotype-phenotype association analysis of meiotic stability in ten autotetraploid Arabidopsis lyrata and A. lyrata/A. arenosa hybrid populations collected from the Wachau region and East Austrian Forealps. The aim was to... Read More about A novel allele of ASY3 promotes meiotic stability in autotetraploid Arabidopsis lyrata.