Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) Greatly Accelerates Genome Evolution and Innovation : ... Gene structure prediction in syntenic DNA segments. ...

... Hox cluster architecture among fishes and, together with genetic mapping data from Medaka, indicate that the third genome ... at least seven Hox clusters. Phylogenetic analysis and genetic mapping reveale...

theory sufficiently accounts for the elevated evo- lutionary rate. Rather, the elevated evolutionary rate-producing eukaryotic or- ganelles that stem from endosymbiotic eubacteria and that have relinquished their genome Muller's ratchet or the slightly deleterious mutation theory to explain the enhanced evolutionary rate

Gene or genome duplication events increase the amount of genetic material available to increase the genomic, and thereby phenotypic, complexity of organisms during evolution. Gene duplication and transfer events have been important to molecular evolution in all three domains of life, and may be the first step in ...

Single nucleotide polymorphism was employed in the construction of a high-resolution, expressed sequence tag (EST) map of Aegilops tauschii, the diploid source of the wheat D genome. Comparison of the map with the rice and sorghum genome sequences revealed 50 inversions and translocations; 2, 8, and...