Mariele Lensink

The paper analyzes duckweed clones to resolve taxonomic relationships and finds triploidy is common, with implications for classification and evolution.

This study identifies dispensable genes in Arabidopsis using naturally occurring loss-of-function mutations and integrates them with transcriptomic data to improve gene function analysis.

The paper develops a framework to distinguish mutation bias from selection in plants by analyzing mutation spectra and genome architecture, revealing reduced mutation rates in gene bodies and broadly expressed genes.

The paper identifies trans-regulatory loci influencing gene expression plasticity in Arabidopsis under salicylic acid treatment, showing most loci act in trans and are under-detected in GWAS.

The paper investigates convergent evolution of histone reader domains fused to MSH6 across eukaryotes, showing evidence of natural selection and links to genome size and mutation rate heterogeneity.

The paper examines how epigenomic divergence affects sequence polymorphism and the evolutionary fate of duplicate genes in Arabidopsis thaliana, finding that transcriptionally repressed genes accumulate more polymorphism and are more likely to pseudogenize.

LoopViz validates and analyzes uLOOP cloning reactions using long-read sequencing to determine plasmid sequences quickly and cost-effectively.