Many organisms have stress response pathways, components of which share homology
with players in complex human disease pathways. Research on stress response in the …

Model organisms are of great importance to our understanding of basic biology and to
making advances in biomedical research. However, the influence of laboratory cultivation on …

The Arabidopsis thaliana accession Landsberg erecta contains an induced mutation in the
leucine-rich repeat receptor-like Ser/Thr kinase gene ERECTA. Landsberg erecta is …

Soil organisms have an important role in aboveground community dynamics and ecosystem
functioning in terrestrial ecosystems. However, most studies have considered soil biota as a …

Accessions of a plant species can show considerable genetic differences that are analyzed
effectively by using recombinant inbred line (RIL) populations. Here we describe the results …

Seed performance after dispersal is highly dependent on parental environmental cues,
especially during seed formation and maturation. Here we examine which environmental factors …

Natural genetic variation in Arabidopsis thaliana exists for many traits and often reflects
acclimation to local environments. Studying natural variation has proven valuable in the …

Gene expression becomes more variable with age, and it is widely assumed that this is due
to a decrease in expression regulation. But currently there is no understanding how gene …

The Hawaiian strain ( CB4856 ) of Caenorhabditis elegans is one of the most divergent from
the canonical laboratory strain N2 and has been widely used in developmental, population, …

Recombinant inbred lines (RILs) derived from Caenorhabditis elegans wild-type N2 and
CB4856 are increasingly being used for mapping genes underlying complex traits. To speed up …