New Paper from the Galloway Lab

Congratulations to Alfredo Lopez-Caamal and Laura Galloway for their publication in Genome Biology & Evolution! They show that American bellflower is a polyploid that has partly reverted to diploidy — the genome has undergone substantial reorganization such that chromosomes are no longer duplicated, however most genes still are. Read it here.

López-Caamal, A., L. F. Galloway, and K. B. Barnard-Kubow. 2026. The genome of autopolyploid Campanula americana captures the transition from cytological to genic diploidization. Genome Biology & Evolution, in press. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evag252