Gene duplication as a mechanism of genomic adaptation to a changing environment

FA Kondrashov - Proceedings of the Royal Society B …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A subject of extensive study in evolutionary theory has been the issue of how neutral,
redundant copies can be maintained in the genome for long periods of time. Concurrently …

β-Defensins: farming the microbiome for homeostasis and health

KG Meade, C O'Farrelly - Frontiers in Immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Diverse commensal populations are now regarded as key to physiological homeostasis and
protection against disease. Although bacteria are the most abundant component of …

[HTML][HTML] Resequencing 302 wild and cultivated accessions identifies genes related to domestication and improvement in soybean

Z Zhou, Y Jiang, Z Wang, Z Gou, J Lyu, W Li, Y Yu… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Understanding soybean (Glycine max) domestication and improvement at a genetic level is
important to inform future efforts to further improve a crop that provides the world's main …

Assembly of a pangenome for global cattle reveals missing sequences and novel structural variations, providing new insights into their diversity and evolutionary …

Y Zhou, L Yang, X Han, J Han, Y Hu, F Li… - Genome …, 2022 - genome.cshlp.org
A cattle pangenome representation was created based on the genome sequences of 898
cattle representing 57 breeds. The pangenome identified 83 Mb of sequence not found in …

The sheep genome illuminates biology of the rumen and lipid metabolism

Y Jiang, M Xie, W Chen, R Talbot, JF Maddox, T Faraut… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Sheep (Ovis aries) are a major source of meat, milk, and fiber in the form of wool and
represent a distinct class of animals that have a specialized digestive organ, the rumen, that …

Genomes of the banyan tree and pollinator wasp provide insights into fig-wasp coevolution

X Zhang, G Wang, S Zhang, S Chen, Y Wang, P Wen… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Banyan trees are distinguished by their extraordinary aerial roots. The Ficus genus includes
species that have evolved a species-specific mutualism system with wasp pollinators. We …

[HTML][HTML] NLR diversity, helpers and integrated domains: making sense of the NLR IDentity

E Baggs, G Dagdas, KV Krasileva - Current opinion in plant biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Plant NLR immune receptors are rapidly diversifying modular proteins.•There is a
vast diversity in NLR copy number and allelic variation across species.•NLRs are sensors of …

DbVar and DGVa: public archives for genomic structural variation

I Lappalainen, J Lopez, L Skipper… - Nucleic acids …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Much has changed in the last two years at DGVa (http://www. ebi. ac. uk/dgva) and dbVar
(http://www. ncbi. nlm. nih. gov/dbvar). We are now processing direct submissions rather …

Haplotype-resolved genomes provide insights into structural variation and gene content in Angus and Brahman cattle

WY Low, R Tearle, R Liu, S Koren, A Rhie… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Inbred animals were historically chosen for genome analysis to circumvent assembly issues
caused by haplotype variation but this resulted in a composite of the two genomes. Here we …

Copy number polymorphism in plant genomes

A Żmieńko, A Samelak, P Kozłowski… - Theoretical and applied …, 2014 - Springer
Copy number variants (CNVs) are genomic rearrangements resulting from gains or losses of
DNA segments. Typically, the term refers to rearrangements of sequences larger than 1 kb …