Tag: genome evolution

A new PLOS Genetics study finds that bacterial gene positions along the chromosome show gradients in mean and growth-dependent expression ...

Genome sampling at key branches of grass evolution, combined with ancestral enzyme reconstruction, reveals when distinct starch and lignin pathways ...

Comparative genomics of three annual-perennial pairs of Oryza species identifies 91 gene families present in all perennial species but missing ...

A genome-wide comparison of Antarctic notothenioid fishes has identified dozens of genes lost across the clade, including icefish-specific losses in ...

A large comparative study of nearly 480 genomes shows that prokaryotes mainly gain co-oriented gene overlaps for translational coupling while ...

A new comparative genomics study provides the first analysis of transposable elements across all medusozoan classes, revealing strong links between ...

A transcriptome-wide survey of 315 animal species confirms that Copia retrotransposon clades are strongly partitioned between marine and terrestrial environments ...

A new comparative genomic study reveals that while chloroplast genomes of three Terminalia species are highly conserved, their mitochondrial genomes ...

A new review traces the evolutionary origins of autophagy from prokaryotic gene homologs to the sophisticated pathway present in the ...

A genome-wide survey of nine ranid frog species reveals that tandem repeats, many born from transposable elements, make up a ...