Systems toxicology approaches for understanding the joint effects of environmental chemical mixtures

DJ Spurgeon, OAH Jones, JLCM Dorne… - Science of the total …, 2010 - Elsevier
Environmental mixtures of chemicals constitute a prevalent issue in ecotoxicology and the
development of new methods to reduce the uncertainties associated with their ecological …

A hitchhiker's guide to expressed sequence tag (EST) analysis

SH Nagaraj, RB Gasser… - Briefings in …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Expressed sequence tag (EST) sequencing projects are underway for numerous organisms,
generating millions of short, single-pass nucleotide sequence reads, accumulating in EST …

Resolving the evolutionary relationships of molluscs with phylogenomic tools

SA Smith, NG Wilson, FE Goetz, C Feehery… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Molluscs (snails, octopuses, clams and their relatives) have a great disparity of body plans
and, among the animals, only arthropods surpass them in species number. This diversity …

Coalescent versus Concatenation Methods and the Placement of Amborella as Sister to Water Lilies

Z Xi, L Liu, JS Rest, CC Davis - Systematic biology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The molecular era has fundamentally reshaped our knowledge of the evolution and
diversification of angiosperms. One outstanding question is the phylogenetic placement of …

Regulatory mechanisms underlying oil palm fruit mesocarp maturation, ripening, and functional specialization in lipid and carotenoid metabolism

TJ Tranbarger, S Dussert, T Joët, X Argout… - Plant …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Fruit provide essential nutrients and vitamins for the human diet. Not only is the lipid-rich
fleshy mesocarp tissue of the oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) fruit the main source of edible oil …

Divergence Times in Caenorhabditis and Drosophila Inferred from Direct Estimates of the Neutral Mutation Rate

AD Cutter - Molecular biology and evolution, 2008 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Pervasive hybridizations in the history of wheat relatives

S Glémin, C Scornavacca, J Dainat, C Burgarella… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Cultivated wheats are derived from an intricate history of three genomes, A, B, and D,
present in both diploid and polyploid species. It was recently proposed that the D genome …

TRAPID: an efficient online tool for the functional and comparative analysis of de novoRNA-Seq transcriptomes

M Van Bel, S Proost, C Van Neste, D Deforce… - Genome biology, 2013 - Springer
Transcriptome analysis through next-generation sequencing technologies allows the
generation of detailed gene catalogs for non-model species, at the cost of new challenges …

Expressed sequence tags: an overview

J Parkinson, M Blaxter - Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs) Generation and …, 2009 - Springer
Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) are fragments of mRNA sequences derived through single
sequencing reactions performed on randomly selected clones from cDNA libraries. To date …

Horizontal transfer of expressed genes in a parasitic flowering plant

Z Xi, RK Bradley, KJ Wurdack, KM Wong… - BMC genomics, 2012 - Springer
Background Recent studies have shown that plant genomes have potentially undergone
rampant horizontal gene transfer (HGT). In plant parasitic systems HGT appears to be …