Evolutionary Genetics and Plant Evolution

Our lab is focused on genetic variation in plants. Two major areas of emphasis include the impact of domestication on patterns of polymorphism in domesticated species and the contribution of recombination to genetic variation and patterns of linkage disequilibrium.

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News

• Lab Meeting: Aug 21, 2026 GBStools: A statistical method for estimating allelic dropout in reduced representation sequencing data
  Discussion Leader: Camilla Mercado
• Mar 20, 2026 Podcast: Deep Roots & Big Data: The Evolution of Our Crops (Minnesota CropCast)