学生時代、山で出合った植物、ミヤマハタザオ。シロイヌナズナに似ているが形態も分布も違う。この植物を使えば、現在進行中の進化を検証できるのではないか。そうひらめいた清水健太郎（現・チューリヒ大学教授）は、分子生物学を野外の植物の研究に適用し、進化ゲノム学を推し進めてきた。

When populations meet, they typically exchange genes. Their languages meet too, and such encounters can change languages. But how much do languages actually change through contact, and do these change...

Human population contact leads to consistently similar rates of linguistic borrowing, but effects vary across linguistic features.

Allopolyploids arise through hybridization between related species, carrying multiple sets of chromosomes from distinct progenitor, referred to as subgenomes. Within allopolyploids, duplicated genes a...

Key message This study identified two potentially novel yellow rust resistance loci in traditional Asian wheat varieties and gives insights into the distribution of resistances in high disease-pressur...

The origin of eukaryotes represents one of the most significant events in evolution since it allowed the posterior emergence of multicellular organ...

Abstract. The study of mating systems, defined as the distribution of who mates with whom and how often in a sexually reproducing population, forms a core

Recently formed allopolyploid species offer unprecedented insights into the early stages of polyploid evolution. This review examines seven well-studied neopolyploids (we use ‘neopolyploid’ to refer ...

Recently formed allopolyploid species offer unprecedented insights into the early stages of polyploid evolution. This review examines seven well-studied neopolyploids (we use ‘neopolyploid’ to refer ...

ABSTRACT. Common wheat is allohexaploid, where it is difficult to obtain homoeolog-distinguished transcriptome data. Lasy-Seq, a type of 3ʹ RNA-seq, is a t

The NCCR Evolving Language invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher in population genomics to study the demography of humans and domesticated crop species related to language evolution at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich.