Tanja Slotte

TL;DR: The impact of genome architecture and mating system on the expected signature of linked selection in plants is discussed and empirical evidence for linked selection is reviewed, with a focus on plant model systems.

TL;DR: The genome-wide imprinting status of Capsella rubella was analyzed, revealing that a subset of imprinted genes play an important functional role and are therefore maintained in plants and that MEGs and PEGs differ in their targeting by 24-nucleotide small RNAs and asymmetric DNA methylation, suggesting different mechanisms establishing DNA methylations.

TL;DR: This study is the first of a wild, nonmodel plant genus that uses a combination of chloroplast and multiple low-copy nuclear loci for phylogenetic inference of polyploid evolution and does not lend support to previous hypotheses on the origin of C. bursa-pastoris.

TL;DR: Re reconstructing the evolution of the disease-related locus MLO2b, it is found that divergence between ancient haplotypes can be obscured by referenced based re-sequencing methods, and that trans-specific alleles can encode substantially diverged protein sequences.

TL;DR: It is proposed that variation in transposable element insertions, the resulting differences in PEG number and divergence in their expression level form one component of the effective ploidy variation between species of different breeding system histories, and, as a consequence, allow the establishment of endosperm-based hybridization barriers.