Gene annotation is a critical bottleneck in genomic research, especially for the
comprehensive study of very large gene families in the genomes of nonmodel organisms …

The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is of central importance to the immune system,
and an optimal MHC diversity is believed to maximize pathogen elimination. Birds show …

Despite polymorphic duplicate genes' importance for the early stages of duplicate gene
evolution, they are less studied than old gene duplicates. Two essential questions thus …

How recently originated gene copies become stable genomic components remains
uncertain as high sequence similarity of young duplicates precludes their functional …

Despite long being considered as “junk”, transposable elements (TEs) are now accepted as
catalysts of evolution. One example is Mutator-like elements (MULEs, one type of terminal …

Here, we present the chromosome‐level genome assembly of Dysdera silvatica Schmidt,
1981, a nocturnal ground‐dwelling spider endemic from the Canary Islands. The genus …

Estimating gene gain and losses is paramount to understand the molecular mechanisms
underlying adaptive evolution. Despite the advent of high-throughput sequencing, such …

Motivation Gene clusters, defined as a set of genes encoding functionally related proteins,
are abundant in eukaryotic genomes. Despite the increasing availability of chromosome …

A long-standing problem in evolutionary biology is why some populations differentiate into
many species while the majority do not. Angiosperms is an excellent group for investigating …

Identifying protein-coding genes from genome and transcriptome data is the first and one of
the most important steps towards their comprehensive study. This chapter introduces both …