Syntenies are genomic segments of consecutive genes identified by a certain conservation
in gene content and order. The notion of conservation may vary from one definition to …

The classical gene and species tree reconciliation, used to infer the history of gene gain and
loss explaining the evolution of gene families, assumes an independent evolution for each …

Background The hypothesis that vertebrates have experienced two ancient, whole genome
duplications (WGDs) is of central interest to evolutionary biology and has been implicated in …

Evolution of organismal complexity and origin of novelties during vertebrate history has
been widely explored in context of both regulation of gene expression and gene duplication …

Classical gene and species tree reconciliation, used to infer the history of gene gain and
loss explaining the evolution of gene families, assumes an independent evolution for each …

The vertebrate genome contains several closely spaced sets of paralogous genes from
distinct gene families on typically two, three or four different chromosomes (paralogons) …

Significant progresshasbeenmadeinthepastfewdecade… theoryoftheoriginofspecies.
Different genomic methodshavehelpedtounderstandthegeneti… flow thatmakesnewspecies …

Fgfr1 is a fibroblast growth factor receptor involved in regulating cell growth, proliferation,
differentiation and migration. Here, we report the isolation and characterization of duplicated …

Genomic amplifications are important in human evolution, physiology, and pathophysiology.
Rereplication is one mechanism that can produce site-specific amplifications. However …

Susumu Ohno hypothesized that the diversity of vertebrate gene families and genome is due
to two rounds of whole genome duplications (also referred as 2R hypothesis). The …