Sex chromosomes are a great example of a convergent evolution at the genomic level,
having evolved dozens of times just within amniotes. An intriguing question is whether this …

Animal genomes show networks of deeply conserved gene linkages whose phylogenetic
scope and chromosomal context remain unclear. Here, we report chromosome-scale …

The origins and the early evolution of multicellular animals required the exploitation of
holozoan genomic regulatory elements and the acquisition of new regulatory tools …

Coleoid cephalopods (squid, cuttlefish, octopus) have the largest nervous system among
invertebrates that together with many lineage-specific morphological traits enables complex …

The forthcoming massive genome data generated by the Earth BioGenome Project will open
up a new era of comparative genomics, for which genome synteny analysis provides an …

Cephalopods are resourceful marine predators that have fascinated generations of
researchers as well as the public owing to their advanced behavior, complex nervous …

Current approaches detect conserved genomic order either at chromosomal (macrosynteny)
or at subchromosomal scales (microsynteny). The latter generally requires collinearity and …

Background Animal genomes are strikingly conserved in terms of local gene order
(microsynteny). While some of these microsyntenies have been shown to be coregulated or …

The concept of homology lies in the heart of comparative biological science. The distinction
between homology as structure and analogy as function has shaped the evolutionary …

The long controversy over the importance of changes in the regulatory genome has been
resolved with the recognition that such changes are a fundamental component of …