Causal mutations for two guppy color variants identified

by Kottler et al.

Published in Genetics on May 11, 2013, by Kottler et al.:

Pigment pattern formation in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata, involves the Kita and Csf1ra receptor tyrosine kinases.

Males of the guppy (Poecilia reticulata) vary tremendously in

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The genomic consequences of rapid mating system evolution

Slotte et al.

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Slotte et al.

The Capsella rubella genome and the genomic consequences of rapid mating system evolution

The shift from outcrossing to selfing is common in flowering plants1, 2, but the genomic … Read the rest

Commentary: Sixty years of genome biology

Sixty years after Watson and Crick published the double helix model of DNA’s structure

Thirteen members of Genome Biology‘s Editorial Board, including Detlef Weigel, comment in Genome Biology on key advances in the field of genome biology subsequent to … Read the rest