Research

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Current Projects

• Assessment of Gene Conversion following polyploidy
• Comparative Evolutionary Genomics of Cotton
• Evolutionary Proteomics of Cotton
• Genome Evolution in Diploid and Polyploid Cotton

Past Projects

• Gene Expression
  • Gene Expression and Polyploidy
    • Analysis of single genes
      • Published research
      • Ongoing research
    • Genomic analyses
      • Genomic surveys comparing organ types
      • Genomic surverys comparing genotypes (microarrays
  • Gene Expression and Fiber Evolution

• Genome Size Evolution
  • Microcolinearity--investigations into genome size evolution using "genome snippets"
  • Global genome size evolution--investigations into genome size evolution using whole genome characterizations

• Phylogenetics
  • D-genome phylogeny
  • Diversity and phylogeography of Gossypium aridum
  • Cytosine Methylation and Genetic Diversity in Gossypium hirsutum
  • Echinacea phylogeny
  • Cryptic Trysts and Genomic Mergers of Gossypium gossypioides