Accumulation of mutations in A. thaliana over 400 years

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The rate and potential relevance of new mutations in a colonizing plant lineage

We used a unique natural “experiment” to measure long-time substitution rates

Exposito-Alonso et al.

A consequence of an increasingly interconnected world is the spread

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Impressive A. thaliana long-read genome assemblies

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High contiguity Arabidopsis thaliana genome assembly with a single nanopore flow cell

Both PacBio and Oxford Nanopore produce impressive assemblies

Todd P. Michael, Florian Jupe, Felix Bemm, S. Timothy Motley, Justin P. Sandoval, Christa Lanz, Olivier Loudet, Detlef Weigel &

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Dynamics of A. thaliana/Pseudomonas pathosystem (bioRxiv)

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Arabidopsis thaliana populations support long-term maintenance and parallel expansions of related Pseudomonas pathogens

With Kemen and Neher labs, we describe the natural dynamics of the A. thaliana/Pseudomonas pathsystem over several years and locations

Talia L Karasov, Juliana Almario, Claudia Friedemann, … Read the rest