The recent increase in genomic data is revealing an unexpected perspective of gene loss as
a pervasive source of genetic variation that can cause adaptive phenotypic diversity. This …

Orthologs and paralogs are two fundamentally different types of homologous genes that
evolved, respectively, by vertical descent from a single ancestral gene and by duplication …

The evolution of land flora transformed the terrestrial environment. Land plants evolved from
an ancestral charophycean alga from which they inherited developmental, biochemical, and …

The number of sequenced plant genomes and associated genomic resources is growing
rapidly with the advent of both an increased focus on plant genomics from funding agencies …

MycoCosm is a fungal genomics portal (http://jgi. doe. gov/fungi), developed by the US
Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute to support integration, analysis and …

We describe the draft genome of the microcrustacean Daphnia pulex, which is only 200
megabases and contains at least 30,907 genes. The high gene count is a consequence of …

All complex life is composed of eukaryotic (nucleated) cells. The eukaryotic cell arose from
prokaryotes just once in four billion years, and otherwise prokaryotes show no tendency to …

Aspergillus fumigatus is exceptional among microorganisms in being both a primary and
opportunistic pathogen as well as a major allergen,,. Its conidia production is prolific, and so …

Basidiomycota (basidiomycetes) make up 32% of the described fungi and include most
wood-decaying species, as well as pathogens and mutualistic symbionts. Wood-decaying …

Trichoderma reesei is the main industrial source of cellulases and hemicellulases used to
depolymerize biomass to simple sugars that are converted to chemical intermediates and …