Rice is one of the most important food crops on earth. Like many other plants, the genome of this critical global species is dominated by...

AgricultureEvolutionG3 JournalGenomicsPlantsTransposable Elements

Towering sugar pine trees dominate the mountain forests of California and Oregon. They are the tallest pine trees in the world, regularly growing to skyscraper...

BioinformaticsConservation BiologyForestryG3 JournalGenetics JournalGenomicsPlantsSequencingTransposable Elements

GSA member Zhao Zhang was named as one of 16 recipients of the NIH Director's Early Independence Award for 2015, joining Jason Sheltzer. Established in 2011, the Early...

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This year's Larry Sandler Memorial Award for an outstanding PhD dissertation in Drosophila research was presented to Zhao Zhang. Zhang, pictured receiving the prestigious award...

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Transposable elements don’t proliferate in genomes at a steady pace; they often arrive in bursts. But models of neutral TE evolution assume transposition occurs at...

DrosophilaGenetics JournalPopulation GeneticsTransposable Elements

The loblolly pine genome is big. Bloated with retrotransposons and other repetitive sequences, it is seven times larger than the human genome and easily big...

Conservation BiologyForestryGenomicsSequencingTransposable Elements