Conifers have dominated forests for more than 200 million years and are of huge ecological
and economic importance. Here we present the draft assembly of the 20-gigabase genome …

Most research concerning the evolution of introns has largely considered introns within
coding sequences (CDSs), without regard for introns located within untranslated regions (UTRs) …

The southern African indigenous Khoe-San populations harbor the most divergent lineages
of all living peoples. Exploring their genomes is key to understanding deep human history. …

Background The initiation of growth cessation and dormancy represent critical life-history
trade-offs between survival and growth and have important fitness effects in perennial plants. …

There is a long-recognized association in plants between small stature and selfing, and
large stature and outcrossing. Inbreeding depression is central to several hypotheses for this …

Despite the global economic and ecological importance of forest trees, the genomic basis of
differential adaptation and speciation in tree species is still poorly understood. Populus …

A central aim of evolutionary genomics is to identify the relative roles that various evolutionary
forces have played in generating and shaping genetic variation within and among species…

The Populus genus is one of the major plant model systems, but genomic resources have
thus far primarily been available for poplar species, and primarily Populus trichocarpa (Torr. & …

An inescapable consequence of sex in eukaryotes is the evolution of a biphasic life cycle
with alternating diploid and haploid phases. The occurrence of selection during the haploid …

Bacteria on floral tissue can have negative effects by consuming resources and affecting
nectar quality, which subsequently could reduce pollinator visitation and plant fitness. Plants …