Assistant Professor of Biology Vicki Losick admits she harbors a desire to change the world a little bit. “I want to make ‘polyploidy’ a household word,” Losick said in her Higgins Hall office, next ...

This breakthrough addresses high-repetition sequences and polyploidy issues in wheat genomics, offering a model for sequencing other complex crop genomes. They annotated 151,405 high-confidence ...

Polyploidy is the presence of more than two homologous sets of chromosomes in a cell or organism. It occurs as a result of genome duplication due to nondisjunction during meiosis. In the ...