The Harkess Lab at the HudsonAlpha is representing at Evolution 2025! Come check out the variety of posters and talks from our group, including Dr. Philip Bentz, myself, Caroline Bendickson and Lauren Womack, as well as visiting scholars Erin Howard and Edison Rea Sancho.
REVIEW: 'Evolution of light-dependent functions of GIGANTEA' - Alena Patnaik et al., doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... 🧪 #plantscience
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.
It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.
Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
Conservation genomics study of island oak by @alaynamead.bsky.social investigates conserving existing diversity, ecosystems, or species across its range.
Finding: Climate change likely makes conservation of existing populations inadequate. Transplant preadapted genotypes.
doi.org/10.1111/eva....
Telomeric transposons are pervasive in linear bacterial genomes | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
1/ Transposable elements are often called "jumping genes" because they mobilize within genomes. 🧬
But did you know they can also jump 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 cells? 🤯
Our new study reveals how retrotransposons invade the germline directly from somatic cells.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A short thread 🧵👇
I'm excited to share our new preprint on the molecular evolution of heterodichogamy in two wingnut genera of Juglandaceae. Heterodichogamy features two morphs synchronously alternating male and female flowering phases in time to generate disassortative mating.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
For International Women's Day, let's pay homage to the great plant anatomist Katherine Esau. In her long career, she transformed our understanding of plant structure through her research and her very important books. She is my academic grandmother, advisor of my advisor.
The most recent lecture I gave on Oak Origins at The Morton Arboretum was really nicely recorded and is available for free online. This is the fullest and cleanest version of the lecture I've given to date, with some new info.
I hope you enjoy it. Feel free to share.
vimeo.com/1057955943
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
On February 15, 2025, The Morton Arboretum hosted a lecture in honor of the release of Dr. Andrew Hipp's book Oak Origins: From Acorns to Species and the…
Eukaryotes have linear DNA and their telomeres are hotspots for transposons, which in some cases took over telomere maintenance. Here we identify several families of independently evolved telomeric tr...
