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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Just out in Nature Genetics:
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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
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
New Model Systems for Linking Evolution and Ecology
Organized by D. Tautz & D. Weigel
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Wednesday 1 May – Saturday 4 May 2013
A major obstacle in linking evolution and ecology has been that for … Read the rest
According to a just published publication analysis in the Laborjournal, WeigelWorld is by the far the most highly cited plant biology lab in German speaking countries. 74 articles published in 2007-2010 were cited a total of 4,440 times, with … Read the rest
Weigelworld teamed up with colleagues from Germany, the UK and the US to reveal that a unique strain of potato blight they call HERB-1 triggered the Irish potato famine of the mid-nineteenth century.
It is the first time scientists have … Read the rest
Detlef Weigel will present the work of this team on natural variation in the plant immune system at the Keystone Conference on Plant Immunity in Big Sky, Montana, April 7-12, 2013.
The Plant Immune System at the Nexus of Trade-offs … Read the rest
Just out in Science: New paper from Markus Schmid’s group and collaborators at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology in Golm:
Accompanied by … Read the rest
Intraspecific variation in TEs and their effects
By Xi Wang, Detlef Weigel and Lisa Smith: Transposon Variants and Their Effects on Gene Expression in Arabidopsis
Abstract
Transposable elements (TEs) make up the majority of many plant genomes. Their transcription and … Read the rest
In EMBO Journal (Open Access)
Circadian clock adjustment to plant iron status depends on chloroplast and phytochrome function
Patrice A Salomé, Michele Oliva, Detlef Weigel and Ute Krämer
Plant chloroplasts are not only the main cellular location for storage of … Read the rest
