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Jonathan F. Wendel

@JonathanFWendel

Plants, Evolutionary Genomics, Polyploidy, Runner, but mostly Husband, Father and Friend...

 Iowa State University, Ames
Joined April 2009
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Vast new fossil record challenges story of Earth’s ‘big five’ mass extinctions nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Vast new fossil record challenges story of Earth’s ‘big five’ mass extinctions

Vast new fossil record challenges story of Earth’s ‘big five’ mass extinctions

Nature - An artificial-intelligence model trained on nearly four million fossils suggests that three of the extinction events might have happened more gradually than previously thought.

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Vast new fossil record challenges story of Earth’s ‘big five’ mass extinctions nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Vast new fossil record challenges story of Earth’s ‘big five’ mass extinctions

Vast new fossil record challenges story of Earth’s ‘big five’ mass extinctions

Nature - An artificial-intelligence model trained on nearly four million fossils suggests that three of the extinction events might have happened more gradually than previously thought.

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At 145 Degrees, This Amoeba Manages to Keep Its Cool nytimes.com/2026/09/22/scien…
At 145 Degrees, This Amoeba Manages to Keep Its Cool

At 145 Degrees, This Amoeba Manages to Keep Its Cool

Found in volcanic streams in California, the newfound organism has the highest heat tolerance of any complex life on Earth.

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Zhiqiang Wu@FaithWahahaAug 29
Mitogenome structural diversification accompanied by rapid repeat-fami... sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Including a short podcast on our new PNAS paper (Ning et al., PNAS, 2026; doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2607107…
Genomic diversity and the domestication history of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) | PNAS

Genomic diversity and the domestication history of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) | PNAS

Gossypium hirsutum is the leading fiber crop globally, but its origin as a domesticated plant and patterns of diversity in the wild remain to be el...

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The Naked Scientists (@NakedScientists) profile pictureThe Naked Scientists@NakedScientistsJun 19
News podcast: @Sander_vdLinden (@Cambridge_Uni) on UK under-16 #socialmedia ban; Leo James and Tyler Rhinesmith (MRC) on cell immunity; @JonathanFWendel (@IowaStateU) on cotton; and @realVickyPryce (@Cebr_uk) on @elonmusk, the first #trillionaire thenakedscientists.com/podca…
UK's under-16 social media ban, and the first trillionaire

UK's under-16 social media ban, and the first trillionaire

Plus, scientists trace the origins of cotton to the Caribbean

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pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pn… Interested in the origin of the most important cultivated species of cotton?
Genomic diversity and the domestication history of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) | PNAS

Genomic diversity and the domestication history of cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) | PNAS

Gossypium hirsutum is the leading fiber crop globally, but its origin as a domesticated plant and patterns of diversity in the wild remain to be el...

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@sciencegirlApr 19
Michoacán, Mexico, Where millions of monarch butterflies turn the sky into a living orange cloud every winter
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@tomaspueyoApr 20
America only has one map
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John Bistline@JEBistlineApr 1
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
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Compilation of blossoming flowers 📷 mandalaexpert
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We are hiring! EEOB department at Iowa State University. isu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/Io…
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Ruth Kiew Dies at 79; Botanist Made Discoveries in Remote Forests (Gift Article)

Ruth Kiew Dies at 79; Botanist Made Discoveries in Remote Forests (Gift Article)

Trekking across Malaysia, her adopted country, she found more than 150 unrecorded plant species. “She’s one of the greatest botanists who ever lived,” a colleague said.

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Terezie Mandakova@TeriMandakova19 Sep 2025
Huge thanks to Malika Ainouche and @JonathanFWendel for inviting me to the fantastic #Polyploidy conference in Roscoff, Brittany - inspiring talks and wonderful people!
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Online now: Beyond supergenes: the diverse roles of inversions in trait evolution dlvr.it/TMvJJD
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@MerriamWebster18 Aug 2025
Not to add to the discourse, but… It’s ‘toe the line,’ not ‘tow the line.’ It’s ‘free rein,’ and not ‘free reign.’ It’s ‘eke out,’ not ‘eek out.’ It’s ‘sleight of hand,’ not ‘slight of hand.’ It's ‘Anchors aweigh,’ and not ‘Anchor's away!’
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@BeschlossDC27 Jul 2025
Tom Lehrer (1928-2025):
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David Bertioli
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The Wild Peanut Lab is in today’s @nytimes! Thanks to Kim Severson for highlighting how wild species—and partnerships that support open science—are building a stronger peanut crop. Link in reply 👇
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André Marques@marques_et_al28 Jul 2025
Happy to share our new work on the exciting genomes of carnivorous sundews! Exciting findings, incl. different centromere organisations and all kinds of weird polyploids giving rise to these mysterious plants! Great word led by my postdoc @1192Laura in collab with @plantgenomes
Victor A. Albert (@plantgenomes) profile pictureVictor A. Albert@plantgenomes28 Jul 2025
Our #Drosera (carnivorous #sundew) #genome work published on bioRxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… All coauthors listed in bioRxiv PDF. #Venusflytrap and #Nepenthes in there too, plus first genomes of African carnivore #Triphyophyllum and secondarily noncarnivorous #Ancistrocladus.
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Steve Kelly@Steve__Kelly16 Jul 2025
It has been a while… but an updated, faster & more accurate version of OrthoFinder is now out! Scales to thousands of species on conventional compute resources with higher accuracy than ever before and the same data rich fully phylogenetic outputs 👉biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
OrthoFinder: scalable phylogenetic orthology inference for comparative genomics

OrthoFinder: scalable phylogenetic orthology inference for comparative genomics

Here, we present a major advance of the OrthoFinder method. This extends OrthoFinder’s high accuracy comparative genomic framework to provide substantially enhanced scalability and accuracy. Specif...

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