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Stajich  \nDr. Zhenyu Jia  \nCopyright by Christopher James Fiscus  \n2022  \nThe Dissertation of Christopher James Fiscus is approved:  \n\n|  |\n| --- |\n|  |\n\nCommittee Chairperson  \nUniversity of California, Riverside  \nACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  \nEarning a PhD has been the greatest honor of my life and the most difficult task I have ever undertaken. This milestone has only been made possible by the copious support of my colleagues and mentors who have supported me through my successes and failures, contributed to my personal and professional development, and helped to shape the ideas presented herein. First, I would like to thank my colleagues in the Koenig and Seymour labs: Dr. Emmanuel Ávila De Dios, Taylor Beaulieu, Dr. Keely Brown, Burcu Çelikli, Isaac Dias, Angelica Guercio, Dr. Yoko Hiraoka, Robert Kettenstock, Dr. Jacob Landis, Jill Marzolino, Ryan Piscatella, Ruth Sarahi Perez Alfaro, Dr. Danelle Seymour, and Aimee Uyehara for helpful discussions, camaraderie, and technical support. I would also like to acknowledge the talented undergraduates whom I have had the privilege of mentoring throughout my Dissertation work: Selena Burke, Livia Nguyen, Johnny Nguyen-Tran, Caitlin Santos, and Chris Valdez, for working hard to help me pursue my (usually bad) ideas and for reminding me why I wanted to pursue a career in science. Next, thanks to the members of my guidance, qualifying exam, and dissertation committees: Dr. Julia Bailey-Serres, Dr. Allison Hansen, Dr. Zhenyu (Arthur) Jia, Dr. Howard Judelson, and Dr. Jason Stajich for investing in my professional development and for helpful discussions that greatly improved my work. I also thank Jordan Hayes of the UCR High-Performance Computing Center for technical support with highperformance computing, Dr. Timothy Close for providing data and technical support for the cowpea chapter, Dr. Christina Wesse for sharing data and preliminary analyses for  \nthe Capsella chapter, and Dr. Detlef Weigel for sharing genome assemblies for the Capsella chapter. I am grateful to Dr. Dave Menshew for first introducing me to the possibility of pursuing a scientific career and for supporting my early steps along this path. Finally, I thank my advisor, Dr. Daniel Koenig, for sharing his infectious enthusiasm for uncovering the mysteries of genetics, for limitless support throughout my time at UCR, and for teaching me all aspects of the scientific business. Dan—it has been a blast being your first graduate student trainee.  \nTo my family and friends—  \nthank you for your love and support and for encouraging me to be persistent.  \nABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION  \nCauses and Consequences of Plant Genome Evolution  \nby  \nChristopher James Fiscus  \nDoctor of Philosophy, Graduate Program in Genetics, Genomics & Bioinformatics University of California, Riverside, September 2022  \nDr. Daniel Koenig, Chairperson  \nGenome evolution is responsible for generating phenotypic differences ","cbCainpZRbcb2XxP","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCainpZRbcb2XxP","pdf",12232961,421,"English","# Introduction\n## Chapter 1: The genetic control of rapid genome content divergence in Arabidopsis thaliana\n## References\n## Chapter 2\n## Chapter 3","[{\"question\":\"Which three plant species are studied?\",\"answer\":\"The dissertation analyzes Arabidopsis thaliana, the allopolyploid Capsella bursa-pastoris, and Vigna unguiculata (cowpea).\"},{\"question\":\"What are the main contributions across the three chapters?\",\"answer\":\"Chapter 1 develops a method to summarize genomes from high-throughput sequencing reads for large-scale Arabidopsis content evolution. 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