Detlef Weigel

TL;DR: Climate-driven selection at the genetic level is studied by measuring fitness of 517 Arabidopsis thaliana lines grown in rainfall-manipulation experiments in Spain and Germany, suggesting that selection driven by local climate would be strongest in the Mediterranean and Western Siberia — the edge of the species’ environmental limits — and weakest in Central Europe.

TL;DR: A fast and cost effective reference assembly for an Arabidopsis thaliana accession using the USB-sized Oxford Nanopore MinION sequencer and typical consumer computing hardware and of high per-base quality against a likewise polished Pacific Biosciences long-read assembly.

TL;DR: Sixty years after Watson and Crick published the double helix model of DNA's structure, thirteen members of Genome Biology's Editorial Board select key advances in the field of genome biology subsequent to that discovery.

TL;DR: It is proposed that HERB-1 and US-1 emerged from a metapopulation that was established in the early 1800s outside of the species’ center of diversity, which replaced it outside of Mexico in the 20th century.

TL;DR: This paper aims to demonstrate the efforts towards in-situ applicability of EMMARM, which aims to provide real-time information about concrete mechanical properties of E.coli found in theobiological deposits.