By Jason Stajich, on March 23rd, 2010
Gene sequences evolve at different rates due to different constraints, either due to chromosome position, functional constraint, and status as a single-copy or multi-copy gene. In a recent paper, Allen Rodrigo (the new NESCent director by the, way, congrats!) the authors hypothesize that correlation in branch lengths of gene trees suggest they operate in the same [...]
By Jason Stajich, on March 3rd, 2008
I’ve been too busy to post much these last few days, but here are a few links to some papers I found interesting in my recent browsing.
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By sharpton, on October 5th, 2007
Few organisms are as well understood at the genetic level as Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Given that there are more yeast geneticists than yeast genes and exemplary resources for the community (largely a result of their size), this comes as no surprise. [...]
By Jason Stajich, on September 29th, 2007
Ignazio Carbone and colleagues published a recent analysis of the evolution of the aflatoxin gene cluster in five Aspergillus fungi entitled “Gene duplication, modularity and adaptation in the evolution of the aflatoxin gene cluster” in BMC Evolutionary Biology. [...]
