The paper identifies climate-associated genomic variation in European beech across life stages, revealing population-specific adaptive responses to temperature and precipitation changes.

bioRxiv · Oct 26, 2026 · PreprintGenomics

Evolutionary divergence in sympatric populations of the fungal pathogen Alternaria alternata across wild tomato hosts

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A chromosome-level genome assembly of the European Beech (Fagus sylvatica) reveals anomalies for organelle DNA integration, repeat content and distribution of SNPs

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