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    A reference genome for common bean and genome-wide analysis of dual domestications
    with J. Schmutz, P. E. McClean, S. Mamidi, G. A. Wu, S. B. Cannon, J. Grimwood, J. Jenkins, S. Shu, Q. Song, C. Chavarro, M. Torres-Torres, V. Geffroy, S. M. Moghaddam, D. Gao, B. Abernathy, K. Barry, M. Blair, M. A. Brick, M. Chovatia, P. Gepts, D. M. Goodstein, U. Hellsten, D. L. Hyten, G. Jia, J. D. Kelly, D. Kudrna, R. Lee, Richard M. M. S., P. N. Miklas, J. M. Osorno, J. Rodrigues, V. Thareau, C. A. Urrea, M. Wang, Y. Yu, M. Zhang, R. A. Wing, P. B. Cregan, D. S. Rokhsar, and S. A. Jackson
    Common bean is the most important grain legume for human consumption and has a role in sustainable agriculture owing to its ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen. We assembled 473 Mb of the 587-Mb genome and genetically anchored 98% of this sequence in 11 chromosome-scale pseudomolecules. We compared the genome for the common bean against the soybean genome to find changes in soybean resulting from polyploidy. Using resequencing of 60 wild individuals and 100 landraces from the genetically differe…Read more
  • Self-organization and life: A systemic approach
    with Mariana Broens, Willem Haselager, and Ettore Bresciani Filho
    Manuscrito 29 (2): 375-390. 2006.
    We investigate the relation between self-organization and living processes from a systemic perspective. Emphasis is given to Aristotle’s conception of four causes in order to provide foundations for a systemic approach to life. From this perspective, life is characterized as a self-organizing process that allows the emergence and evolution of systems capable of self-locomotion, in the Aristotelian sense of moving and growing
    Philosophy of Biology, Miscellaneous