Stefanie De Bodt

TL;DR: The high-quality genome sequence will help Brachypodium reach its potential as an important model system for developing new energy and food crops and establishes a template for analysis of the large genomes of economically important pooid grasses such as wheat.

TL;DR: An evolutionary model that simulates the duplication dynamics of genes, considering genome-wide duplication events and a continuous mode of gene duplication is presented and it is shown that gene loss is strikingly different for large-scale and small-scale duplication Events and highly biased toward certain functional classes.

TL;DR: It is argued that these ancient polyploidy events might have also had an important role in the origin and diversification of the angiosperms.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that massive gene duplication (probably as a consequence of entire genome duplications) at the dawn of vertebrate evolution might have been particularly important for the evolution of complex vertebrates.

TL;DR: Genes differentially expressed during the transition from cell proliferation to expansion were enriched in genes involved in cell cycle, photosynthesis, and chloroplast retrograde signaling, and differentiation of the photosynthetic machinery is important for regulating the exit from proliferation.