Expressed sequence tag (EST) sequencing projects are underway for numerous organisms,
generating millions of short, single-pass nucleotide sequence reads, accumulating in EST …

Genomics and bioinformatics have great potential to help address numerous topics in
ecology and evolution. Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) can bridge genomics and …

Long-held ideas regarding the evolutionary relationships among animals have recently
been upended by sometimes controversial hypotheses based largely on insights from …

Molluscs (snails, octopuses, clams and their relatives) have a great disparity of body plans
and, among the animals, only arthropods surpass them in species number. This diversity …

Bursaphelenchus xylophilus is the nematode responsible for a devastating epidemic of pine
wilt disease in Asia and Europe, and represents a recent, independent origin of plant …

Background EST sequencing is a versatile approach for rapidly gathering protein coding
sequences. They provide direct access to an organism's gene repertoire bypassing the still …

Invasive species are increasingly prevalent in marine ecosystems worldwide. Although
many studies have examined the ecological effects of invasives, little is known about the …

Gene duplication is a key mechanism for the adaptive evolution and neofunctionalization of
gene families. Large multigene families often exhibit complex evolutionary histories as a …

Accurate inference of the dates of common ancestry among species forms a central problem
in understanding the evolutionary history of organisms. Molecular estimates of divergence …

The phylum Nematoda occupies a huge range of ecological niches, from free-living
microbivores to human parasites. We analyzed the genomic biology of the phylum using …