Alternative splicing, a mechanism of post-transcriptional RNA processing whereby a single
gene can encode multiple distinct transcripts, has been proposed to underlie morphological …

The study of the evolutionary origin of vertebrates has been linked to the study of genome
duplications since Susumo Ohno suggested that the successful diversification of vertebrate …

DIVERGE is a software system for phylogeny-based analyses of protein family evolution and
functional divergence. It provides a suite of statistical tools for selection and prioritization of …

Alternative splicing (AS) plays important roles in many plant functions, but its conservation
across the plant kingdom is not known. We describe a methodology to identify AS events …

Alternative splicing (AS) is a major source of protein diversity in eukaryotes, but less is
known about its evolution compared to gene duplication (GD). How AS and GD interact is …

Gene duplication and alternative splicing are important mechanisms in the production of
genomic novelties. Previous work has shown that a gene's family size and the number of …

Evolutionary variations generating phenotypic adaptations and novel taxa resulted from
complex cellular activities altering genome content and expression:(i) Symbiogenetic cell …

The protein diversity that exists today has resulted from various evolutionary processes. It is
well known that gene duplication (GD) along with the accumulation of mutations are …

Alternative splicing (AS) occurs extensively in eukaryotes as an important mechanism for
regulating transcriptome complexity and proteome diversity, but variation in the AS …

One difficulty when identifying alternative splicing (AS) events in plants is distinguishing
functional AS from splicing noise. One way to add confidence to the validity of a splice …