Regulatory architecture and standing variation drive parallelism in floral evolution
Kévin Sartori, Natalia Joanna Woźniak, Anahid E. Powell, Ushio Fujikura, Christian Kappel, Tian‐Feng Lü, Yang Dong, Stefanie Rosa, Michael Lenhard, Adrien Sicard
The paper shows that reductions in petal size in selfing Brassicaceae species arise from dosage changes at the pleiotropic gene JAG, highlighting the role of developmental networks and standing variation in shaping predictable evolutionary outcomes.
bioRxiv · Oct 28, 2025 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology