Wei‐Yun Lai

This study identifies convergent genomic and gene-level constraints in grasses adapting to extreme environments using phylogenomic data and large language models.

This study shows that maize evolved a higher recombination rate and re-patterning of crossover events during domestication, which enhanced genetic diversity and adaptation.

The paper examines how pleiotropy influences parallel gene expression evolution in Drosophila simulans adapted to a new temperature regime, finding both direct and indirect effects of pleiotropy on parallelism.

The paper introduces PlantCaduceus, a DNA language model for plants, showing high transferability across species and improved performance in mutation prediction and variant identification.