evolutionary history

Termites in the genus Reticulitermes (Blattodea: Rhinotermitidae) are distributed across the eastern United States, including the southern Appalachian Mountains, a region incredibly rich in biodiversity. The eastern subterranean termite, Reticulitermes flavipes, has been uninent…

Cancers are composed of genetically distinct subpopulations of malignant cells. By sequencing DNA from cancer tissue samples, we can characterize the somatic mutations specific to each population and build clone trees describing the evolutionary relationships between these popul…