Comparative genomics has revealed a class of non-protein-coding genomic sequences that
display an extraordinary degree of conservation between two or more organisms, regularly …

The precise regulation of gene transcription during metazoan development is controlled by a
complex system of interactions between transcription factors, histone modifications and …

• Premise of the study: The Compositae (Asteraceae) are a large and diverse family of
plants, and the most comprehensive phylogeny to date is a meta‐tree based on 10 …

Regions of several dozen to several hundred base pairs of extreme conservation have been
found in non-coding regions in all metazoan genomes. The distribution of these elements …

Noncoding markers have a particular appeal as tools for phylogenomic analysis because, at
least in vertebrates, they appear less subject to strong variation in GC content among …

Superfamily Hominoidea, which consists of Hominidae (humans and great apes) and
Hylobatidae (gibbons), is well-known for sharing human-like characteristics, however, the …

In vertebrates, conserved noncoding elements (CNEs) are functionally constrained
sequences that can show striking conservation over> 400 million years of evolutionary …

Here, we describe the construction of a phylogenetically deep, whole-genome alignment of
20 flowering plants, along with an analysis of plant genome conservation. Each included …

The order of genes along metazoan chromosomes has generally been thought to be largely
random, with few implications for organismal function. However, two recent studies …

This study explores the relationship between three-dimensional genome organization and
ultraconserved elements (UCEs), an enigmatic set of DNA elements that are perfectly …