Abstract. Pleiotropy, the phenomenon where a single mutation influences multiple phenotypic traits, creates genetic correlations that can constrain evoluti

MIT School of Engineering faculty Jacob Andreas, Zachary Cordero, Christina Delimitrou, Sili Deng, David Des Marais, Carmen Guerra-Garcia, Laura Lewis, Tami Lieberman, Kevin O’Brien, and Wim van Rees ...

Abstract. Genome analyses reveal that gene duplication in eukaryotes is pervasive, providing a primary source for the emergence of new genes. Nevertheless,

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Plant domestication is thought to create trade-offs between high yield and stress tolerance, raising concerns about yield stability in future climates. Previous studies have found limited direct evide...

“I’m excited that people are finally letting us remind them that plants exist and that they are here for a reason,” says Professor Joanne Chory, plant geneticist at the Plant Biology Group of the Salk...

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The extraordinary diversity and adaptive fit of organisms to their environment depends fundamentally on the availability of variation. While most population genetic frameworks assumes that random muta...

Abstract. Understanding the evolutionary forces that maintain phenotypic variation in ecologically relevant traits has long been one of the central goals of evo