Assistant Professor of Biology Vicki Losick admits she harbors a desire to change the world a little bit. “I want to make ‘polyploidy’ a household word,” Losick said in her Higgins Hall office, next ...

This condition, called polyploidy, reduces or eliminates genetic exchange with other yeast strains, therefore maintaining the brewing characteristics of yeast strains. Polyploidy is also found in ...

Charlotte Lindqvist is an evolutionary biologist. Her research uses genomics to understand speciation processes, polyploidy events and hybridization in both animals and plants. She is an expert on the ...

arabica a survival advantage that enabled it to thrive and adapt. "It's often argued that a hybrid polyploidy event can give an immediate evolutionary advantage given that two sets of chromosomes ...

Whole-genome duplication (WGD, or polyploidy) is a common and frequent occurrence in plants, providing raw genetic material for evolution. Homoeologs (duplicate genes from a WGD) often diverge in ...

2). For unknown reasons, trisomies are positively associated with advanced maternal age. Polyploidy refers to the presence of an extra set of chromosomes. Triploidy, for example, usually occurs ...

Each year there are extensive losses in crop productivity caused by abiotic stresses. Limited tolerance to extremes in temperatures, drought, salinity and nutrient imbalances have traditionally ...

Evolution, ecology and genetics of plants, mutation rate, polyploidy, natural selection, mating systems, self-fertilization, flower development, molecular evolution. am interested generally in the ...

Genetics is the branch of science concerned with genes, heredity, and variation in living organisms. It seeks to understand the process of trait inheritance from parents to offspring, including ...

Mayden's research interests are diverse, ranging from theoretical aspects of species, concepts and systematics, inventory of fishes, discovery and descriptions of species, revisionary studies, ...

Many of us are addicted to our morning coffee. As I was having a cup this morning, I read a paper on the origins of the most common type of ...