Must Love Cones

evolution. polyploidy. gymnosperms.

papers

I try to keep this current, but for the most up-to-date list visit my Google Scholar page here

preprints

A Global Genomic Resource for Outcrossing Arabidopsis lyrata and Arabidopsis arenosa. Glushkevich et al., 2026, biorXiv..

Copy Number Variation: A Substrate for Plant Adaptation and Stress Response in Arabidopsis. Karunarathne et al., 2025, biorXiv.
(forthcoming at G3)

publications

Somatic genome‐doubling is the most parsimonious route to allopolyploidy. Burns, Scott, and Novikova, 2026, New Phytologist.

Diploid origins, adaptation to polyploidy, and the beginning of rediploidization in allotetraploid Arabidopsis suecica. Burns et al., 2025, New Phytologist

Multiple polyploidizations in Arabidopsis lyrata stabilized by long-range adaptive introgression across Eurasia. Scott et al., 2025, Molecular Biology and Evolution.

Seagrass genomes reveal a hexaploid ancestry facilitating adaptation to the marine environment. Ma et al., 2024, Nature Plants.

Genome of selfing Siberian  Arabidopsis lyrata explains establishment of allopolyploid  Arabidopsis kamchatica. Kolesnikova & Scott et al., 2023. MBE.

Cycles of satellite and transposon evolution in Arabidopsis centromeres. Wlodzimierz et al., 2023. Nature.

Ancestral self-compatibility facilitates the establishment of allopolyploids in Brassicaceae. Novikova, Kolesnikova, and Scott, 2022. Plant Reproduction.

Repeat-based holocentromeres influence genome architecture and karyotype evolution. Hofstatter et al., 2022. Cell.

Inference of polyploid origin and inheritance mode from population genomic data. Scott Van de Velde, and Novikova, 2022.

Genome-wide association identifies candidate genes for drought tolerance in coast redwood and giant sequoia. De La Torre et al., 2022. The Plant Journal.

Assembled and annotated 26.5 Gbp coast redwood genome: a resource for estimating evolutionary adaptive potential and investigating hexaploid origin. Neale et al., 2022. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

A Reference Genome Sequence for Giant Sequoia. Scott et al., 2020. G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics.

Whole genome duplication in coast redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) and its implications for explaining the rarity of polyploidy in conifers. Scott et al., 2016. New Phytologist.

Phylogenetic Tree. Scott and Baum, 2016. In: Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Biology (pp. 270–276).