Rachel Sarah Meyer

Genomic and phenotypic adaptation tunes an endangered California plant to the fog that climate change and wind energy will reshape

This study identifies genomic adaptations in an endangered California plant to coastal fog, revealing candidate genes and potential impacts of wind farms on gene flow.

First Plant sedaDNA assemblage from California reveals ecological stability throughout 10,000 years of human presence at Lake Elsinore

Angiosperms353 capture of Lake Elsinore sedimentary DNA recovers 50 land-plant orders across 24,000 years, with a fire-linked community shift preceding a persistent Holocene chaparral assemblage.

The reference genome of an endangered Asteraceae, Deinandra increscens subsp. villosa, endemic to the Central Coast of California

The paper presents a high-quality reference genome for the endangered Gaviota tarplant, identifies repeat sequences and tandem genes, and compares its genome to sunflower to infer a shared polyploidization event.

Anacapa Toolkit: an environmental DNA toolkit for processing multilocus metabarcode datasets

The paper introduces Anacapa, a toolkit for processing multilocus eDNA metabarcoding data, enabling comprehensive reference database creation and accurate taxonomic assignment.