Principles of seed banks and the emergence of complexity from dormancy

JT Lennon, F den Hollander… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Across the tree of life, populations have evolved the capacity to contend with suboptimal
conditions by engaging in dormancy, whereby individuals enter a reversible state of reduced …

A survey of methods and tools to detect recent and strong positive selection

P Pavlidis, N Alachiotis - Journal of Biological Research-Thessaloniki, 2017 - Springer
Positive selection occurs when an allele is favored by natural selection. The frequency of the
favored allele increases in the population and due to genetic hitchhiking the neighboring …

Genetic diversity in tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) and its wild relatives

G Bauchet, M Causse - Genetic diversity in plants, 2012 - books.google.com
Tomato, ranking 1st in the world for vegetables, accounts for 14% of world vegetable
production (over 100 million metric tons/year $1.6 billion market;(Food and Agriculture …

Evolution with a seed bank: the population genetic consequences of microbial dormancy

WR Shoemaker, JT Lennon - Evolutionary applications, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Dormancy is a bet‐hedging strategy that allows organisms to persist through conditions that
are suboptimal for growth and reproduction by entering a reversible state of reduced …

Demographic divergence history of pied flycatcher and collared flycatcher inferred from whole-genome re-sequencing data

K Nadachowska-Brzyska, R Burri, PI Olason… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Profound knowledge of demographic history is a prerequisite for the understanding and
inference of processes involved in the evolution of population differentiation and speciation …

Coalescence 2.0: a multiple branching of recent theoretical developments and their applications

A Tellier, C Lemaire - Molecular ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Population genetics theory has laid the foundations for genomic analyses including the
recent burst in genome scans for selection and statistical inference of past demographic …

Incorporating ecology into gene drive modelling

J Kim, KD Harris, IK Kim, S Shemesh… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Gene drive technology, in which fast‐spreading engineered drive alleles are introduced into
wild populations, represents a promising new tool in the fight against vector‐borne diseases …

Subsets of NLR genes show differential signatures of adaptation during colonization of new habitats

R Stam, GA Silva‐Arias, A Tellier - New Phytologist, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Nucleotide binding site, leucine‐rich repeat receptors (NLR s) are canonical resistance (R)
genes in plants, fungi and animals, functioning as central (helper) and peripheral (sensor) …

The de Novo Reference Genome and Transcriptome Assemblies of the Wild Tomato Species Solanum chilense Highlights Birth and Death of NLR Genes Between …

R Stam, T Nosenko, AC Hörger… - G3: Genes …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Wild tomato species, like Solanum chilense, are important germplasm resources for
enhanced biotic and abiotic stress resistance in tomato breeding. S. chilense also serves as …

Improving seed germination of the eggplant rootstock Solanum torvum by testing multiple factors using an orthogonal array design

RHG Ranil, HML Niran, M Plazas, RM Fonseka… - Scientia …, 2015 - Elsevier
Solanum torvum is a highly vigorous relative of eggplant that is resistant to a number of
harmful soil-borne diseases and is compatible for grafting with eggplant. Being a potential …