Meiotic recombination is a fundamental feature of sexually reproducing species. It is often
required for proper chromosome segregation and plays important role in adaptation and the …

Abstract Background and Aims Studies on codon usage in monocots have focused on
grasses, and observed patterns of this taxon were generalized to all monocot species. Here …

Exome sequencing offers the potential to study the population-genomic variables that
underlie patterns of deleterious variation. Runs of homozygosity (ROH) are long stretches of …

Selection on codon usage bias is well documented in a number of microorganisms. Whether
codon usage is also generally shaped by natural selection in large organisms, despite their …

The characterization of functional elements in genomes relies on the identification of the
footprints of natural selection. In this quest, taking into account neutral evolutionary …

Despite the rapid increase of size in phylogenomic data sets, a number of important nodes
on animal phylogeny are still unresolved. Among these, the rooting of the placental mammal …

Much evidence indicates that GC-biased gene conversion (gBGC) has a major impact on
the evolution of mammalian genomes. However, a detailed quantification of the process is …

Meiotic recombination is a fundamental cellular process, with important consequences for
evolution and genome integrity. However, we know little about how recombination rates vary …

As increasingly large molecular data sets are collected for phylogenomics, the conflicting
phylogenetic signal among gene trees poses challenges to resolve some difficult nodes of …

There is considerable variation within eukaryotic genomes in the local rate of crossing over.
Why is this and what effect does it have on genome evolution? On the genome scale, it is …