F. B. Haas

Origin and evolutionary trajectories of brown algal sex chromosomes

The paper analyzes brown algal genomes to trace the origin and evolution of U/V sex chromosomes, revealing gene gain-driven evolution and the demise of these systems through hermaphroditism and gene hierarchy shifts.

Sex chromosome dominance in a UV sexual system

This study investigates the genetic and molecular interactions between U and V sex chromosomes in the brown alga Ectocarpus across its life cycle, revealing developmental regulation and histone modifications in the diploid sporophyte stage.

PARALLEL LOSS OF SEX IN FIELD POPULATIONS OF A BROWN ALGA SHEDS LIGHT ON THE MECHANISMS UNDERLYING THE EMERGENCE OF ASEXUALITY

The paper investigates the molecular mechanisms of asexual reproduction emergence in brown algae, finding convergent gene expression changes and a key autosomal locus associated with the loss of sex.

Evolutionary conserved and divergent responses to copper zinc superoxide dismutase inhibition in plants

The paper inhibits CuZnSODs in plants to study their evolutionary roles, finding conserved stress responses and species-specific metabolic changes.

Chromosome-level genomes of multicellular algal sisters to land plants illuminate signaling network evolution

The paper sequenced four Zygnematophyceae algal genomes to study signaling network evolution, finding expanded genes for multicellularity and environmental response.

JGI Plant Gene Atlas: An updateable transcriptome resource to improve structural annotations and functional gene descriptions across the plant kingdom

The paper introduces the JGI Plant Gene Atlas, a resource that improves gene function annotations by analyzing transcript abundance across 18 species and 604 tissues, identifying 64,620 genes with unknown functions.

Neanderthals did not likely consume Physcomitrium patens - a model moss species

The paper reanalyzes ancient DNA data from Neanderthal dental calculus to challenge the claim that Neanderthals consumed the moss Physcomitrium patens, showing the result is likely due to methodological misinterpretation.

Characterization of evolutionarily conserved key players affecting eukaryotic flagellar motility and fertility using a moss model

The paper identifies genes affecting flagellar motility and fertility in moss by comparing two strains and shows evolutionary conservation of these genes across species.