Understanding the relationship between macro- and microevolutionary processes and their delimitation remains a challenge. This review focuses on the role of chromosomal rearrangements in plant ...

School of Emergency Management and Safety Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology-Beijing, Beijing 100083, China ...

How perennial organisms adapt to environments is a key question in biology. To address this question, we investigated ten natural black poplar ( Populus nigra ) populations from Western Europe, a ...

CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing 100190, China Center of Materials ...

The past fifty years have seen the development and application of numerous statistical methods to identify genomic regions that appear to be shaped by natural selection. These methods have been used ...

Cryptic genetic variation (CGV) is genetic variation that is not normally expressed, but that is available to modify abnormal phenotypes produced by environmental or genetic perturbation. CGV is ...

Is there a natural bridge between these two research fields? Do the deeply conserved developmental systems that produce adult morphology also influence the expression of genetic variation in the ...