For more than 10,000 years, the selection of plant and animal traits that are better tailored
for human use has shaped the development of civilizations. During this period, bread wheat (…

Growing evidence links COVID-19 with acute and long-term neurological dysfunction.
However, the pathophysiological mechanisms resulting in central nervous system involvement …

A patient-tailored, ex vivo drug response platform for glioblastoma (GBM) would facilitate
therapy planning, provide insights into treatment-induced mechanisms in the immune tumor …

Grasses derive from a family of monocotyledonous plants that includes crops of major economic
importance such as wheat, rice, sorghum and barley, sharing a common ancestor some …

DeCoSTAR is a software that aims at reconstructing the organization of ancestral genes or
genomes in the form of sets of neighborhood relations (adjacencies) between pairs of …

Background Barley is one of the founder crops of Neolithic agriculture and is among the
most-grown cereals today. The only trait that universally differentiates the cultivated and wild …

Motivation A reconciliation is an annotation of the nodes of a gene tree with evolutionary
events—for example, speciation, gene duplication, transfer, loss, etc.—along with a mapping …

Background Forming a new species through the merger of two or more divergent parent
species is increasingly seen as a key phenomenon in the evolution of many biological systems. …

Insecticide resistance in Anopheles mosquitoes is seriously threatening the success of
insecticide-based malaria vector control. Surveillance of insecticide resistance in mosquito …

Background Genomes rearrangements carry valuable information for phylogenetic inference
or the elucidation of molecular mechanisms of adaptation. However, the detection of …