Wow, huge news based on an ancient DNA analysis (But no details/publication yet) theguardian.com/world/2024/oct…

Olive genome assembly reveals MYC2-mediated regulation of fatty acids & flavonoids. #OliveFruitMetabolism Oxford Journals Details:doi.org/10.1093/hr/uha…

I'm delighted to share that our study on the amylase locus is now published in Science Magazine! A big thanks to all the authors: Charikleia Karageorgiou, Kwondo Kim, Petar Pajic, Kendra Scheer, Christine R. Beck, Ann-Marie Torregrossa, Charles Lee, Omer Gokcumen. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Why do we love carbs? The origins predate agriculture and maybe even our split from Neanderthals sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/…

The published version of the paper that goes along with Rob's awesome tutorial is now out: doi.org/10.1093/molbev… "The meaning and measure of concordance factors in phylogenomics"

We must train specialists in botany and zoology — or risk more devastating extinctions nature.com/articles/d4158…

Reconstruction of the human amylase locus reveals ancient duplications seeding modern-day variation | Science science.org/doi/abs/10.112…

Do you want to rapidly predict bootstrap values via machine learning? You can now use our Educated Bootstrap Guesser: academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar…

On the origin of an insular hybrid butterfly lineage biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

In this preprint, Regev Schweiger, Richard Durbin and I discuss ancient (>5 million years ago) hominin demography biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

In this preprint with Arun Durvasula, we discuss how there is no evidence for a bottleneck in the panmictic ancestral population of humans ~ 1 million years ago, as was suggested by Hu et al in Science last year biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Squirrel: Reconstructing semi-directed phylogenetic level-1 networks from four-leaved networks or sequence alignments biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

The origin and maintenance of supergenes contributing to ecological adaptation in Atlantic herring nature.com/articles/s4146… Nature Communications

A transcriptomic hourglass in brown algae nature.com/articles/s4158… nature

⏰ Deadline approaching! ⏰ November 30th Michigan State University is seeking two tenure-track faculty to join the new Agricultural Climate Resiliency Program. Please RT! #PlantScience #Agriculture #FacultyPositions #InclusionInSTEM #DiversityInSTEM

Orphan genes are not a distinct biological entity | BioEssays onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bi… "The processes generating orphan genes are substantially more diverse than generally thought and include horizontal gene transfer, transposable element domestication, and overprinting."

Dear friends of plants of all sorts, please check out this great opportunity to meet and chat about Plant Evolution! Would love to see some of you there!!! 🌻🌹🥀🌷🌼🌸🪷🪻

It is my absolute pleasure to share my incredible postdoc Dawei's Dawei manuscript on epigenetics and aging in Arabidopsis. It is the work I am most proud of thus far in my career, and every figure has a breakthrough that we are excited about biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Putting my postdoc hat back on for a moment to share this beautiful work by Amy Lanctot! She demonstrates both activation and repression within a tomato CRE and shows a different regulatory landscape in Arabidopsis, all with amazing flowering phenotypes! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…