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Welcome to The Doebley Lab
Department of Genetics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Our research
group is investigating a variety of questions in the general
area of Evolutionary Genetics
using maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) and its wild
relatives (the teosintes) as our model system. We are specifically
interested in:
The genetic basis of the evolution of
form. How many genes are required for the evolution
of a new morphological trait? Is it typically few genes of
large effect or many genes of individually small effect? What
are these genes? Are they most often transcriptional regulators,
kinase, ligands, or basic structural proteins? What types
of changes in these genes underlie morphological evolution?
Is it more often cis-regulatory changes or changes
in protein function?
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