A fundamental problem in genome biology is to elucidate the evolutionary forces
responsible for generating nonrandom patterns of genome organization. As the first …

Genome evolution studies for the phylum Nematoda have been limited by focusing on
comparisons involving Caenorhabditis elegans. We report a draft genome sequence of …

Accurate inference of the dates of common ancestry among species forms a central problem
in understanding the evolutionary history of organisms. Molecular estimates of divergence …

Evolutionary transitions from outcrossing to selfing are expected to cause a reduction in the
effective population size and a corresponding increase in fixation rates of slightly deleterious …

Reproduction is directly connected to the suite of developmental and physiological
mechanisms that enable it, but how it occurs also has consequences for the genetics …

The transition from outcrossing to selfing is predicted to reduce the genome-wide efficacy of
selection because of the lower effective population size (N e) that accompanies this change …

The mating system shift from outcrossing to selfing is one of the most frequent evolutionary
trends in flowering plants. However, the genomic consequences of this shift remain poorly …

The phenomenon of codon usage bias is known to exist in many genomes and it is mainly
determined by mutation and selection. To understand the patterns of codon usage in …

The generation of EST information is an essential step in the genomic characterisation of
species. In the context of the European Network Marine Genomics, a common goal was to …

We studied the correlation of synonymous codon usage (SCU) on gene expression levels
under drought stress in rice. Sixty genes related to drought stress (with high, intermediate …