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Ecological Restoration Practices within a Semi-arid Natural Gas Field Improve Insect Abundance and Diversity during Early and Late Growing Season Open
Insects are critical components of terrestrial ecosystems and are often considered ecosystem engineers. Due to the vast amount of ecosystem services they provide, because statistically valid samples can be captured in short durations, and …
View article: Allele-specific Expression Reveals Multiple Paths to Highland Adaptation in Maize
Allele-specific Expression Reveals Multiple Paths to Highland Adaptation in Maize Open
Maize is a staple food of smallholder farmers living in highland regions up to 4,000 m above sea level worldwide. Mexican and South American highlands are two major highland maize growing regions, and population genetic data suggest the ma…
View article: Allele-specific expression reveals multiple paths to highland adaptation in maize
Allele-specific expression reveals multiple paths to highland adaptation in maize Open
Maize is a staple food of smallholder farmers living in highland regions up to 4,000 meters above sea level worldwide. Mexican and South American highlands are two major highland maize growing regions, and population genetic data suggests …
Diversity and structure in California’s urban forest: What over six million data points tell us about one of the world's largest urban forests Open
Urban street trees provide many benefits to surrounding communities, but our ability to assess such benefits relies on the availability of high-quality urban tree data. While these data are numerous, they are not available in an easily acc…
Early seral vegetation communities increase insect abundance and diversity in a semiarid natural gas field during early and late growing season Open
Insects are critical components of terrestrial ecosystems and are often considered ecosystem engineers. Due to the vast amount of ecosystem services they provide, because statistically valid samples can be captured in short durations, and …
An adaptive teosinte <i>mexicana</i> introgression modulates phosphatidylcholine levels and is associated with maize flowering time Open
Native Americans domesticated maize ( Zea mays ssp. mays ) from lowland teosinte parviglumis ( Zea mays ssp. parviglumis) in the warm Mexican southwest and brought it to the highlands of Mexico and South America where it was exposed to low…
Impacts of Host Genotype and Grafting on Root, Rhizosphere, and Core Microbiomes in <i>Theobroma cacao</i> Seedlings Open
Recent advances in understanding microbial contributions to plant growth and soil health have sparked interest in breeding plants that cultivate a beneficial microbiome. However, optimizing phytobiomes requires knowledge of the genetic arc…
3’ RNA sequencing does not increase power or reduce costs for gene expression analysis Open
Background Sequencing RNA transcripts for gene expression profiling is a popular and important technique with broad utility in biological sciences. We set out to comprehensively compare the two most popular methods for generating sequencin…
Insect Abundance and Diversity Respond Favorably to Vegetation Communities on Interim Reclamation Sites in a Semi-Arid Natural Gas Field Open
Natural resource extraction has been linked to habitat loss and declines in biodiversity. Insects, the most diverse and abundant animals on Earth, provide a wide array of critical ecosystem services, but are typically understudied in terre…
Impacts of Shade Trees on the Adjacent Cacao Rhizosphere in a Young Diversified Agroforestry System Open
Cacao agroforestry systems offer the potential to diversify farmer income sources, enhance biodiversity, sequester carbon, and deliver other important ecosystem services. To date, however, studies have emphasized field- and system-scale ou…
Interactive and Dynamic Effects of Rootstock and Rhizobiome on Scion Nutrition in Cacao Seedlings Open
Perennial agroecosystems often seek to optimize productivity by breeding nutrient-efficient, disease-resistant rootstocks. In cacao ( Theobroma cacao L.), however, rootstock selection has traditionally relied on locally available open poll…
An adaptive teosinte <i>mexicana</i> introgression modulates phosphatidylcholine levels and is associated with maize flowering time Open
Native Americans domesticated maize ( Zea mays ssp. mays ) from lowland teosinte parviglumis ( Zea mays ssp. parviglumis ) in the warm Mexican southwest and brought it to the highlands of México and South America where it was exposed to lo…
Implications of genetic heterogeneity for plant translocation during ecological restoration Open
Ecological restoration often requires translocating plant material from distant sites. Importing suitable plant material is important for successful establishment and persistence. Yet, published guidelines for seed transfer are available f…
Gene regulatory effects of a large chromosomal inversion in highland maize Open
Chromosomal inversions play an important role in local adaptation. Inversions can capture multiple locally adaptive functional variants in a linked block by repressing recombination. However, this recombination suppression makes it difficu…
Implications of genetic heterogeneity for plant translocation during ecological restoration Open
Ecological restoration often requires translocating plant material from distant sites. Yet published guidelines for seed transfer are available for very few species. Accurately predicting how plants will perform when transferred requires m…
Gene regulatory effects of a large chromosomal inversion in highland maize Open
Chromosomal inversions play an important role in local adaptation. Inversions can capture multiple locally adaptive functional variants in a linked block by repressing recombination. However, this recombination suppression makes it difficu…
Asymmetrical selection maintains heritable phenotypic variation between two subspecies of <i>Monardella villosa</i> Open
Premise Monardella villosa is an evolutionarily young species complex distributed across a large geographic range. Our goal was to determine whether the phenotypic difference between two subspecies of M. villosa was heritable and whether t…
Provisional methods to guide species‐specific seed transfer in ecological restoration Open
Transferring plant material during ecological restoration has inherent risk. The use of seed transfer guidelines minimizes the possibility of introducing maladapted genotypes. We delineated biogeographic regions relevant to the distributio…
Combining Genotype, Phenotype, and Environment to Infer Potential Candidate Genes Open
Population genomic analysis can be an important tool in understanding local adaptation. Identification of potential adaptive loci in such analyses is usually based on the survey of a large genomic dataset in combination with environmental …