Reposted by Aimee Schulz
New preprint from my PhD! How cis-regulatory evolution shaped grass diversification worldwide
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We looked across 589 (!) grass species to ask:
— What regulatory changes enabled grasses to adapt?
— How can this inform crop breeding for resilience?
Here’s what we found:
biorxiv.org
Extensive modulation of a conserved cis-regulatory code across 589 grass species
The growing availability of genomes from non-model organisms offers new opportunities to identify functional loci underlying trait variation through comparative genomics. While cis-regulatory regions ...