Tamar Friedlander

Volatile but persistent co-existence of self-compatibility and self-incompatibility in plants

The paper models the evolutionary dynamics of self-incompatibility and self-compatibility in plants, revealing a phase diagram with three mating modes and showing pollen limitation affects the stability of self-incompatibility.

Reconciling conflicting selection pressures in the plant collaborative non-self recognition self-incompatibility system

The paper develops a theoretical framework to study how conflicting selection pressures shape amino acid frequencies in plant self-incompatibility proteins, showing asymmetric effects on female and male proteins.

The relation between crosstalk and gene regulation form revisited

The paper revisits the relationship between gene regulation form and crosstalk, showing that an idle design minimizes crosstalk by reducing regulatory interference.