Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) have emerged in recent years as major players in a
multitude of pathways across species, but it remains challenging to understand which of …

Evolution is the hallmark of life. Descriptions of the evolution of microorganisms have
provided a wealth of information, but knowledge regarding “what happened” has precluded …

Soybean is one of the most important vegetable oil and protein feed crops. To capture the
entire genomic diversity, it is needed to construct a complete high-quality pan-genome from …

The genus Oryza is a model system for the study of molecular evolution over time scales
ranging from a few thousand to 15 million years. Using 13 reference genomes spanning the …

The wide variety of animal behaviours that can be observed today arose through the
evolution of their underlying neural circuits. Advances in understanding the mechanisms …

Horizontal gene transfer (HGT), the movement of genetic material across branches of the
tree of life, is well established in prokaryotes and uncontroversial. This is explained in part …

Deep transcriptome sequencing has revealed the existence of many transcripts that lack
long or conserved open reading frames (ORFs) and which have been termed long non …

During the course of evolution, genomes acquire novel genetic elements as sources of
functional and phenotypic diversity, including new genes that originated in recent evolution …

Thousands of genes encoding long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) have been identified in all
vertebrate genomes thus far examined. The list of lncRNAs partaking in arguably important …

INTRODUCTION How novel protein architectures evolve remains poorly understood. The
rearrangement of domains with preexisting functions into new composite architectures …