Kate Crosby

TL;DR: It is concluded that regular assays for Wolbachia presence and type can, and should, be adopted by large scale insect barcoding initiatives and the ability to query this DNA library for endosymbionts is one of the ancillary benefits of such a large scale endeavor.

TL;DR: The first whole-genome estimate of the demography of maize domestication is produced, showing that maize was reduced to approximately 5% the population size of teosinte before it experienced rapid expansion post-domestication to population sizes much larger than its ancestor.

TL;DR: It is found that although there are several areas of great isolation in the tropical oceans, most reef habitats are within the reach of most species given their PLDs and a global ocean circulation model was developed to quantify the connectivity among tropical reefs relative to the potential dispersal conferred by PLD.

TL;DR: Analysis of newly available genome sequences from diverse mono- and polyplastidic taxa shows that the limited transfer window hypothesis holds, and NUPT content was positively related to nuclear genome size, indicating that in addition to plastid number, NUPTs are influenced by the forces controlling the expansion and contraction of noncoding nuclear DNA.