Adaptation to selfing in the genus Capsella: Inferring the evolutionary history and adaptive value of selfing-syndrome alleles

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Michael Lenhard, since 9/2017
• Subject Area: Plant Genetics and Genomics ; Plant Cell and Developmental Biology
• Term: from 2014 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 260499038

• Final Report Year: 2020

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Publications

• (2016). Standing genetic variation in a tissue-specific enhancer underlies selfing-syndrome evolution in Capsella. PNAS. Nov 29;113(48):13911-13916
  Sicard A, Kappel C, Lee YW, Wozniak N, Marona C, Stinchcombe JR, Wright SI and Lenhard M
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1613394113)
• (2018). Evolvability of flower geometry: Convergence in pollinator-driven morphological evolution of flowers. Semin Cell Dev Biol. 79:3-15
  Woźniak NJ, Sicard A
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semcdb.2017.09.028)
• How to Become Selfish: Evolution and Adaptation to Self-fertilization in Plants. Origin and Evolution of Biodiversity. Springer International Publishing. 2018
  Woźniak NJ, Sicard A
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95954-2_9)
• (2019) A high-throughput amplicon-based method for estimating outcrossing rates. Plant Methods. May 18;15:47
  Jantzen F, Wozniak N, Kappel C, Sicard A, Lenhard M
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-019-0433-9)
• (2019) Retracing the molecular basis and evolutionary history of the loss of benzaldehyde emission in the genus Capsella. New Phytol.
  Friederike J, Lynch JH, Kappel C, Höfflin J, Skaliter O, Wozniak N, Sicard A, Sas C, Adebesin F, Ravid J, Vainstein A, Hilker M, Dudareva N, Lenhard M
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.16103)
• (2020) A Similar Genetic Architecture Underlies the Convergent Evolution of the Selfing Syndrome in Capsella. Plant Cell. Apr;32(4):935-949
  Woźniak J, Kappel C, Marona C, Altschmied L, Neuffer B, Sicard A
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.19.00551)