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: May 10, 2024 Inferring the geographic history of recombinant lineages using the full ancestral recombination graph
  Discussion Leader: Roland Akakpo
• Lab Meeting: May 10, 2024 TRAILS: Tree reconstruction of ancestry using incomplete lineage sorting
  Discussion Leader: Peter Morrell