Chromosomal inversions have long fascinated evolutionary biologists due to their
suppression of recombination, which can protect co-adapted alleles. Emerging research …

Engineered gene drives—the process of stimulating the biased inheritance of specific genes—
have the potential to enable the spread of desirable genes throughout wild populations or to …

MCScan is an algorithm able to scan multiple genomes or subgenomes in order to identify
putative homologous chromosomal regions, and align these regions using genes as …

Gene duplication is an important mechanism for acquiring new genes and creating genetic
novelty in organisms. Many new gene functions have evolved through gene duplication and …

Whole-genome duplications have shaped the genomes of several vertebrate, plant, and
fungal lineages. Earlier studies have focused on establishing when these events occurred …

Genome duplication (GD) has permanently shaped the architecture and function of many
higher eukaryotic genomes. The angiosperms (flowering plants) are outstanding models in …

Pollen development is a critical step in plant development that is needed for successful
breeding and seed formation. Manipulation of male fertility has proved a useful trait for …

Correlated gene arrangements among taxa provide a valuable framework for inference of
shared ancestry of genes and for the utilization of findings from model organisms to study …

The multicellular green alga Volvox carteri and its morphologically diverse close relatives
(the volvocine algae) are well suited for the investigation of the evolution of multicellularity …

Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile, repetitive DNA sequences that are almost
ubiquitous in prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes. They have a large impact on genome …