The evolution of transposable elements in Brachypodium distachyon is governed by purifying selection, while neutral and adaptive processes play a minor role

R Horvath, N Minadakis, Y Bourgeois, AC Roulin - Elife, 2024 - elifesciences.org
Understanding how plants adapt to changing environments and the potential contribution of
transposable elements (TEs) to this process is a key question in evolutionary genomics …

Transposition of HOPPLA in siRNA-deficient plants suggests a limited effect of the environment on retrotransposon mobility in Brachypodium distachyon

M Thieme, N Minadakis, C Himber, B Keller, W Xu… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Long terminal repeat retrotransposons (LTR-RTs) are powerful mutagens regarded as a
major source of genetic novelty and important drivers of evolution. Yet, the uncontrolled and …

Biases in ARG-based inference of historical population size in populations experiencing selection

JI Marsh, P Johri - Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Inferring the demographic history of populations provides fundamental insights into species
dynamics and is essential for developing a null model to accurately study selective …

Repeated migration, interbreeding and bottlenecking shaped the phylogeography of the selfing grass Brachypodium stacei

M Campos, E Pérez‐Collazos, A Díaz‐Pérez… - Molecular …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Brachypodium stacei is the most ancestral lineage in the genus Brachypodium, a model
system for grass functional genomics. B. stacei shows striking and sometimes contradictory …

The Brachypodium distachyon pangenome highlights Transposable Element dynamics in the species

S Saidi, M Blaison, MP Rodriguez-Ordonez, J Confais… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The role of transposable elements (TEs) in host adaptation can be explored with a
pangenomic approach. Individuals of the same species undergo independent TE insertions …

Eco-Genomic Alchemy: The Crucial Intersections of Brachypodium, Agriculture, and Climate Dynamics

M Neji - JOURNAL OF OASIS AGRICULTURE AND …, 2024 - joasdjournal.org
Brachypodium species, particularly B. distachyon, B. hybridum, and B. stacei, have rapidly
become valuable models in plant research, providing important insights into the genetics …