Farah Abdul‐Rahman

This study shows segmental copy number amplifications are more stable than aneuploidies when selection pressure is removed, with aneuploidies reverting quickly and losing fitness.

The paper shows CNVs act as reversible toggles between ecological strategies in yeast, with imbalanced ratios defining specialists and balanced ratios defining generalists.

The paper investigates how genomic architecture influences the formation and fitness of adaptive copy number variants (CNVs) in yeast, finding that template switching during DNA replication is a common mechanism for CNV generation.