• The genomic basis of the plant island syndrome in Darwin’s giant daisies 

      Cerca, José; Petersen, Bent; Lazaro-Guevara, José Miguel; Rivera-Colón, Angel G.; Birkeland, Siri; Vizueta, Joel; Li, Siyu; Li, Qionghou; Loureiro, João; Kosawang, Chatchai; Jaramillo Díaz, Patricia; Rivas-Torres, Gonzalo; Fernández-Mazuecos, Mario; Vargas, Pablo; McCauley, Ross; Petersen, Gitte; Santos-Bay, Luisa; Wales, Nathan; Catchen, Julian M.; Machado, Daniel; Nowak, Michael; Suh, Alexander; Sinha, Neelima R.; Rostgaard Nielsen, Lene; Seberg, Ole; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Leebens-Mack, James H.; Rieseberg, Loren H.; Martin, Michael David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The repeated, rapid and often pronounced patterns of evolutionary divergence observed in insular plants, or the ‘plant island syndrome’, include changes in leaf phenotypes, growth, as well as the acquisition of a perennial ...
    • The Tetragnatha kauaiensis Genome Sheds Light on the Origins of Genomic Novelty in Spiders 

      Cerca, José; Armstrong, Ellie E.; Vizueta, Joel; Fernández, Rosa; Dimitrov, Dimitar Stefanov; Petersen, Bent; Prost, Stefan; Rozas, Julio; Petrov, Dmitri; Gillespie, Rosemary G. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Spiders (Araneae) have a diverse spectrum of morphologies, behaviors, and physiologies. Attempts to understand the genomic-basis of this diversity are often hindered by their large, heterozygous, and AT-rich genomes with ...