Jennifer James

The paper investigates how gene-level complexity influences genome-wide variation in the distribution of fitness effects across species.

The paper investigates how mutational pleiotropy, expression level, and network connectivity affect the distribution of fitness effects of new mutations across the genome in two plant species.

The paper tests if amino acid properties affect substitution rates, finding that larger physicochemical differences between amino acids correlate with lower substitution rates across multiple datasets.

The paper reconstructs the evolutionary history of Betula pubescens, showing it originated from an autoploid event and later hybridized with multiple species, with introgressed alleles contributing to climate adaptation and meiotic stability.

nQMaker estimates time non-reversible amino acid substitution models and rooted phylogenetic trees from protein sequence alignments, showing improved model fit across diverse datasets.