Several demographic and selective events occurred during the domestication of wheat from
the allotetraploid wild emmer (Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccoides). Cultivated wheat has …

Despite the central importance of noncoding DNA to gene regulation and evolution, understanding
of the extent of selection on plant noncoding DNA remains limited compared to that of …

Efficient algorithms and programs for the analysis of the ever-growing amount of biological
sequence data are strongly needed in the genomics era. The pace at which new data and …

Background Of the different bioinformatic methods used to recover transposable elements (TEs)
in genome sequences, one of the most commonly used procedures is the homology-…

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 …

Genetic variation is the fuel of evolution, with standing genetic variation especially important
for short-term evolution and local adaptation. To date, studies of spatiotemporal patterns of …

Theoretical and empirical comparisons of molecular diversity in selfing and outcrossing
plants have primarily focused on long-term consequences of differences in mating system (…

While the evolutionary mechanisms driving eukaryote genome size evolution are still debated,
repeated element content appears to be crucial. Here, we reconstructed the phylogeny …

Self-fertilization is hypothesized to be an evolutionary dead end because reversion to
outcrossing can rarely happen, and selfing lineages are thought to rapidly become extinct …

Over the past few years, considerable progress has been made in high‐throughput single
nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping technologies, largely through the investment of …