In higher plants, invertases hydrolyze sucrose (Suc), the major end product of
photosynthesis, into glucose (Glc) and fructose (Fru), which are used as nutrients, energy …

The vast amount of data generated by genome projects and the recent development of
population genetics models make comparative sequence analyses a very powerful …

The evolution of gene expression in mammalian organ development remains largely
uncharacterized. Here we report the transcriptomes of seven organs (cerebrum, cerebellum …

One of the major properties of genes is their expression pattern. Notably, genes are often
classified as tissue specific or housekee**. This property is of interest to molecular …

Many genetic variants that influence phenotypes of interest are located outside of protein-
coding genes, yet existing methods for identifying such variants have poor predictive power …

We present here a draft genome sequence of the red jungle fowl, Gallus gallus. Because the
chicken is a modern descendant of the dinosaurs and the first non-mammalian amniote to …

The laboratory rat (Rattus norvegicus) is an indispensable tool in experimental medicine
and drug development, having made inestimable contributions to human health. We report …

Although eusociality evolved independently within several orders of insects, research into
the molecular underpinnings of the transition towards social complexity has been confined …

Strikingly consistent correlations between rates of coding-sequence evolution and gene
expression levels are apparent across taxa, but the biological causes behind the selective …

Human sex chromosomes evolved from autosomes. Nineteen ancestral autosomal genes
persist as differentiated homologs on the X and Y chromosomes. The ages of individual XY …