- Genombiologi
I am interested in how genomes evolve and how genomic variation is linked to phenotypic variation, adaptation, and evolution of novel traits. Much of my research have been on the evolution of duplicated genomes. Genome duplication is believed to speed up evolution of novel adaptations as one gene can act as a backup (performing the original function) while its copy evolves free of evolutionary constraints. I was involved in the sequencing and analyses of the hexaploid bread wheat genome (Science, 2014) and the sequencing of the double genome of the Atlantic salmon (Nature, 2016). Our current projects includes the evolutionary consequences of genome duplication, the biology ad genetics of smoltification, host and gut microbe interactions and fungi genomics.
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- Genomics
- Genetics
- Evolution