PNAS paper on Capsella speciation published

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Self-compatible Capsella rubella and -incompatible C. grandiflora are two closely related and crossable species.

Remarkably, we have now found, in collaboration with other groups from the ERA-PG ARelatives consortium, that C. rubella apparently originated from C. grandiflora only a few … Read the rest

Science paper on triplet repeats published

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Triplet repeat expansions cause many human genetic diseases. Until now, no naturally occurring triplet repeat associated genetic defects were known from other multicellular species.

We have identified such a case in Arabidopsis thaliana, which provides a convenient genetic model … Read the rest