Synteny is modernly used to describe the conservation of homologous genomic regions
between chromosomes among different species, although the term was first introduced to …

Their small sizes have meant that the Arabidopsis and rice genomes are the best-studied of
all plant genomes. Although even closely related plant species can show large variations in …

The concept of synteny, derived from the Greek syn tene ('same thread') has come to refer
broadly to parallels in gene arrangement in divergent genomes. Gene collinearity, a special …

Recent advances in next-generation sequencing technologies and genome assembly
algorithms have enabled the accumulation of a huge volume of genome sequences from …

MCScan is an algorithm able to scan multiple genomes or subgenomes in order to identify
putative homologous chromosomal regions, and align these regions using genes as …

In comparative genomics, the study of synteny can be a powerful method for exploring
genome rearrangements, inferring genomic ancestry, defining orthology relationships …

Comparative genomic studies among highly divergent species have been problematic
because reduced gene similarities make orthologous gene pairs difficult to identify and …

There are four sequenced and publicly available plant genomes to date. With many more
slated for completion, one challenge will be to use comparative genomic methods to detect …

Chromosomal synteny analysis is important in genome comparison to reveal genomic
evolution of related species. Shared synteny describes genomic fragments from different …

Several of the crop plants have multiple sets of chromosomes, and they originated from
progenitors each with one chromosome set. Chromosome pairing in interspecific hybrids …