Genome data have revealed great variation in the numbers of genes in different organisms,
which indicates that there is a fundamental process of genome evolution: the origin of new …

The efficient repair of double-strand breaks (DSBs) in genomic DNA is important for the
survival of all organisms. In recent years, basic mechanisms of DSB repair in somatic plant …

Genome size in mammals and birds shows remarkably little interspecific variation compared
with other taxa. However, genome sequencing has revealed that many mammal and bird …

The key event in the era's welter of competing arguments was less the politicization of
argument than the breakup into fragments of the block ideas that had dominated American …

The human genome holds an extraordinary trove of information about human development,
physiology, medicine and evolution. Here we report the results of an international …

We report the 207-Mb genome sequence of the North American Arabidopsis lyrata strain
MN47 based on 8.3× dideoxy sequence coverage. We predict 32,670 genes in this …

We have identified 242 Anopheles gambiae genes from 18 gene families implicated in
innate immunity and have detected marked diversification relative to Drosophila …

Background and Aims Plant nuclear genomes vary tremendously in DNA content, mostly
due to differences in ancestral ploidy and variation in the degree of transposon amplification …

We employed deep genome sequencing of two parents and 12 of their offspring to estimate
the mutation rate per site per generation in a full-sib family of Drosophila melanogaster …

Retrotransposons are the main components of eukaryotic genomes, representing up to 80%
of some large plant genomes. These mobile elements transpose via a “copy and paste” …