Background Over the past decades, extensive comparative mapping research has been
performed in the plant family Solanaceae. The recent identification of a large set of single …

Duplicated sequences are substrates for the emergence of new genes and are an important
source of genetic instability associated with rare and common diseases. Analyses of primate …

Understanding the mechanisms driving lineage-specific evolution in both primates and
rodents has been hindered by the lack of sister clades with a similar phylogenetic structure …

Since Darwin first noted that the process of speciation was indeed the “mystery of mysteries,”
scientists have tried to develop testable models for the development of reproductive …

The pig, a representative of the artiodactyla clade, is one of the first animals domesticated,
and has become an important agriculture animal as one of the major human nutritional …

Background The domestic pig is being increasingly exploited as a system for modeling
human disease. It also has substantial economic importance for meat-based protein …

High-resolution physical maps of vertebrate species' chromosomes empower comparative
genomics discovery and are indispensable for sequence assembly precision. Beginning in …

According to the increasing of human population in the world, it reached about seven billion
people and it continuously increased. In this background, the food source in both animal and …

Centromeres are epigenetically specified by the histone H3 variant CENP-A. Although
mammalian centromeres are typically associated with satellite DNA, we previously …

The past decade has witnessed an explosion of genome sequencing and mapping in
evolutionary diverse species. While full genome sequencing of mammals is rapidly …