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… of Energy is overseeing the SPRUCE (Spruce and Peatland Responses Under Changing Environments) project, assessing … to have two high quality reference genomes for peat-forming species that occupy different microhabitats – Sphagnum fallax and S. …

… easy enough? DAN: Well, it is and it isn’t. It depends on different systems of secondary metabolism and the things … you know, you wanted to make a car that had a, you know, different kind of a door, you just take out the part that … millions of years to find the precursor sequences. Those species are long dead. And if the DNA sequences have been …

… and ANI values, we were able to ascertain mis-assignment of species names in genomes spanning nearly 18% of all existing species. Additionally, the complete linkage clustering made it possible to confidently assign species to nearly 326 genomes. Through the analysis of …

… occurring ploidy levels, called cytotypes, across the species. These are primarily tetraploids (4X or four copies … multiple, independent origin events? Do the cytotypes react differently in response to the environment? We set out to explore these …

… in the laboratory. “We are fortunate because the progenitor species of  Brachypodium hybridum are still extant (whereas … genomically the whole complex of progenitors and descendant species and, consequently, the evolution of polyploidy.” … correspond to the same recurrent speciation outcome or to different species,” added Catalan. Overall, Vogel noted, the …

… a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. Most species are hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female … the evolutionary strategy we are far more familiar with: differentiating into male and female sexes. For the first … One shared gene stood out in particular: a cytokinin response regulator that was expanded in a palindrome and …