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Leafing through the genomes of our major crop plants: strategies for capturing unique informationAndrew H Paterson
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Nat Rev Genet 7:174-84. 2006..Combining these methods with phylogenetically stratified sampling to allow comparative genomic approaches has the potential to further accelerate progress in angiosperm genomics...
Association analysis of photoperiodic flowering time genes in west and central African sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench]Sankalp U Bhosale
Institute of Plant Breeding, Seed Science, and Population Genetics, University of Hohenheim, 70593 Stuttgart, Germany
BMC Plant Biol 12:32. 2012..For this purpose a genetically characterized panel of 219 sorghum accessions from West and Central Africa was evaluated for their photoperiod response index (PRI) based on two sowing dates under field conditions...
Comparative genomic analysis of C4 photosynthetic pathway evolution in grassesXiyin Wang
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Genome Biol 10:R68. 2009....
A physical map of Brassica oleracea shows complexity of chromosomal changes following recursive paleopolyploidizationsXiyin Wang
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, 30602, USA
BMC Genomics 12:470. 2011..Evolution of the Brassica species has been recursively affected by polyploidy events, and comparison to their relative, Arabidopsis thaliana, provides means to explore their genomic complexity...
A draft physical map of a D-genome cotton species (Gossypium raimondii)Lifeng Lin
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30605, USA
BMC Genomics 11:395. 2010..Toward the long-term goal of characterizing the spectrum of diversity among cotton genomes, the worldwide cotton community has prioritized the D genome progenitor Gossypium raimondii for complete sequencing...
Microcollinearity between autopolyploid sugarcane and diploid sorghum genomesJianping Wang
Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
BMC Genomics 11:261. 2010..Commercial sugarcane cultivars are hybrids between S. officinarum and wild species S. spontaneum with ploidy at approximately 12x. The complex autopolyploid sugarcane genome has not been characterized at the DNA sequence level...
Screening synteny blocks in pairwise genome comparisons through integer programmingHaibao Tang
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
BMC Bioinformatics 12:102. 2011..We call this "quota-based" screening of synteny blocks in order to appropriately fill a quota of syntenic relationships within one genome or between two genomes having WGD events...
Insights from the comparison of plant genome sequencesAndrew H Paterson
Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
Annu Rev Plant Biol 61:349-72. 2010....
A cornucopia of genomesAndrew H Paterson
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Genome Biol 7:311. 2006
Ancient polyploidization predating divergence of the cereals, and its consequences for comparative genomicsA H Paterson
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:9903-8. 2004..Additional ancient duplication events probably remain to be discovered in other angiosperm lineages...
Polyploidy, evolutionary opportunity, and crop adaptationAndrew H Paterson
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Genetica 123:191-6. 2005....
QTL analysis of genotype x environment interactions affecting cotton fiber qualityA H Paterson
Center for Applied Genetic Technologies, Department of Crop and Soil Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Theor Appl Genet 106:384-96. 2003..These difficulties may be partly ameliorated by efficiencies gained through identification and use of diagnostic DNA markers, including those identified herein...
Brassica genomics: a complement to, and early beneficiary of, the Arabidopsis sequenceA H Paterson
Center for Applied Genetic Technologies, Riverbend Research Lab, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Genome Biol 2:REVIEWS1011. 2001..The remarkable morphological diversity of Brassica species and their relatives offers valuable opportunities to advance our knowledge of plant growth and development, and our understanding of rapid phenotypic evolution...
Many gene and domain families have convergent fates following independent whole-genome duplication events in Arabidopsis, Oryza, Saccharomyces and TetraodonAndrew H Paterson
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory and Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Trends Genet 22:597-602. 2006..Angiosperms show more frequent polyploidization and a higher degree of duplicate gene preservation than other paleopolyploids, making them well-suited to further study of duplication-resistant genes...
Ancient duplication of cereal genomesAndrew H Paterson
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
New Phytol 165:658-61. 2005
The Sorghum bicolor genome and the diversification of grassesAndrew H Paterson
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Nature 457:551-6. 2009..About 24% of genes are grass-specific and 7% are sorghum-specific. Recent gene and microRNA duplications may contribute to sorghum's drought tolerance...
Angiosperm genome comparisons reveal early polyploidy in the monocot lineageHaibao Tang
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:472-7. 2010..Although the exact timing of the sigma-duplication(s) is unclear because of uncertainties of the molecular clock assumption, our data suggest that it occurred early in the monocot lineage after its divergence from the eudicot clade...
Leveraging the rice genome sequence for monocot comparative and translational genomicsH C Lohithaswa
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, 111 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Theor Appl Genet 115:237-43. 2007....
Comparative inference of illegitimate recombination between rice and sorghum duplicated genes produced by polyploidizationXiyin Wang
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Genome Res 19:1026-32. 2009..The converted genes show no change in selection pressure. We also found no evidence that conversion contributed to guanine-cytosine (GC) content elevation...
Alignment of genetic maps and QTLs between inter- and intra-specific sorghum populationsF A Feltus
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, 111 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Theor Appl Genet 112:1295-305. 2006..bicolor)...
Unraveling ancient hexaploidy through multiply-aligned angiosperm gene mapsHaibao Tang
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Genome Res 18:1944-54. 2008..Comparative analysis of inferred homologous genes derived from this model shows patterns of preferential gene retention or loss after polyploidy and reveals large variability of nucleotide substitution rates among plant nuclear genomes...
Unravelling angiosperm genome evolution by phylogenetic analysis of chromosomal duplication eventsJohn E Bowers
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Nature 422:433-8. 2003....
Types, levels and patterns of low-copy DNA sequence divergence, and phylogenetic implications, for Gossypium genome typesJ Rong
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Heredity (Edinb) 108:500-6. 2012..Loci that are monomorphic within A or D genome types, but polymorphic between genome types, may be of practical importance for identifying locus-specific DNA markers in tetraploid cottons including leading cultivars...
Synteny and collinearity in plant genomesHaibao Tang
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Science 320:486-8. 2008..Because of variability in DNA substitution rates among taxa and genes, deviation from collinearity might be a more reliable phylogenetic character...
Comparative genomics of Gossypium and Arabidopsis: unraveling the consequences of both ancient and recent polyploidyJunkang Rong
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, Life Sciences Building, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Genome Res 15:1198-210. 2005..Inferences that mitigate the consequences of ancient duplications improve leveraging of genomic information for model organisms in the study of more complex genomes...
Patterns of tandem repetition in plant whole genome assembliesRafael Navajas-Pérez
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Mol Genet Genomics 281:579-90. 2009..A database including all tandem repeat sequences characterized here was created to benefit future comparative genomic analyses...
A 3347-locus genetic recombination map of sequence-tagged sites reveals features of genome organization, transmission and evolution of cotton (Gossypium)Junkang Rong
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Genetics 166:389-417. 2004..These data provide new insights into polyploid evolution and represent a foundation for assembly of a finished sequence of the cotton genome...
A comparative genomics strategy for targeted discovery of single-nucleotide polymorphisms and conserved-noncoding sequences in orphan cropsF A Feltus
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Plant Physiol 140:1183-91. 2006....
QTL analysis in a complex autopolyploid: genetic control of sugar content in sugarcaneR Ming
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
Genome Res 11:2075-84. 2001..However, many QTLs do not correspond to known candidate genes, suggesting that other approaches will be necessary to isolate the genetic determinants of high sugar content of vegetative tissues...
A framework linkage map of bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon x transvaalensis) based on single-dose restriction fragmentsC M Bethel
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, 111 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA, 30602, USA
Theor Appl Genet 112:727-37. 2006..Using these maps we have estimated the recombinational length of the T89 and T574 genomes at 3,012 and 1,569 cM, respectively, which are 61 and 62% covered by our maps...
Gene copy number evolution during tetraploid cotton radiationJ Rong
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Heredity (Edinb) 105:463-72. 2010..Together with D subgenome-biased alterations in gene expression, perhaps gene loss may contribute to the relatively larger portion of quantitative trait variation attributable to D than A subgenome chromosomes of tetraploid cotton...
Evolutionary fate of rhizome-specific genes in a non-rhizomatous Sorghum genotypeC S Jang
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Heredity (Edinb) 102:266-73. 2009..bicolor genes to rhizome-enriched expression in S. halepense, suggesting that polyploidy may have offered new evolutionary potential to S. halepense...
A detailed look at 7 million years of genome evolution in a 439 kb contiguous sequence at the barley Hv-eIF4E locus: recombination, rearrangements and repeatsThomas Wicker
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Plant J 41:184-94. 2005....
Extensive concerted evolution of rice paralogs and the road to regaining independenceXiyin Wang
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Genetics 177:1753-63. 2007..The higher level of concerted evolution in the 5-7 MY-old segmental duplication may reflect the behavior of many genomes within the first few million years after duplication or polyploidization...
Toward integration of comparative genetic, physical, diversity, and cytomolecular maps for grasses and grains, using the sorghum genome as a foundationX Draye
Applied Genetic Technology Center, Departments of Crop and Soil Science, Botany, and Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Plant Physiol 125:1325-41. 2001....
Evolutionary genetics of genome merger and doubling in plantsJeff J Doyle
Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14850, USA
Annu Rev Genet 42:443-61. 2008..Further studies are required for general patterns to be elucidated, involving different plant families, kinds of polyploidy, and polyploids of different ages...
Meta-analysis of polyploid cotton QTL shows unequal contributions of subgenomes to a complex network of genes and gene clusters implicated in lint fiber developmentJunkang Rong
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, 111 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Genetics 176:2577-88. 2007..Meta-analysis linked to synteny-based and expression-based information provides clues about specific genes and families involved in QTL networks...
Crop-to-weed introgression has impacted allelic composition of johnsongrass populations with and without recent exposure to cultivated sorghumP L Morrell
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Mol Ecol 14:2143-54. 2005..Naturalized johnsongrass populations appear to provide a conduit by which transgenes from sorghum could become widely disseminated...
A high-density genetic recombination map of sequence-tagged sites for sorghum, as a framework for comparative structural and evolutionary genomics of tropical grains and grassesJohn E Bowers
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Genetics 165:367-86. 2003..These genetically anchored sequence-tagged sites will foster many structural, functional and evolutionary genomic studies in major food, feed, and biomass crops...
Buffering of crucial functions by paleologous duplicated genes may contribute cyclicality to angiosperm genome duplicationBrad A Chapman
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory and Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:2730-5. 2006....
Organization and evolution of resistance gene analogs in peanutBayram Yuksel
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, The University of Georgia, Athens, 30605, USA
Mol Genet Genomics 274:248-63. 2005..The BACs isolated here will serve as a valuable resource for future applications, such as map-based cloning, and will help improve our understanding of the evolution and organization of these genes in the peanut genome...
Chromosome structural changes in diploid and tetraploid A genomes of GossypiumAparna Desai
Coastal Plains Experiement Station, University of Georgia, Tifton, 31793, USA
Genome 49:336-45. 2006..Elevated recombination in the Dt genome was reported previously. These data on the At genome thus indicate that elevated recombination was a general property of allotetraploidy in cotton...
Grains of knowledge: genomics of model cerealsAndrew H Paterson
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Genome Res 15:1643-50. 2005....
Functional classification, genomic organization, putatively cis-acting regulatory elements, and relationship to quantitative trait loci, of sorghum genes with rhizome-enriched expressionCheol Seong Jang
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Plant Physiol 142:1148-59. 2006..Insight into genes and pathways that influence rhizome growth set the stage for genetic and/or exogenous manipulation of rhizomatousness, and for further dissection of the molecular evolution of rhizomatousness...
Sorghum expressed sequence tags identify signature genes for drought, pathogenesis, and skotomorphogenesis from a milestone set of 16,801 unique transcriptsLee H Pratt
Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, 30602, USA
Plant Physiol 139:869-84. 2005..From these 775 TUs, signature genes were identified defining drought, Colletotrichum infection, skotomorphogenesis (etiolation), ovary, immature panicle, and embryo...
Applied plant genomics: the secret is integrationMark T Osterlund
Center for Applied Genetic Technologies, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Curr Opin Plant Biol 5:141-5. 2002..In particular, whole-genome sequencing has provided opportunities for the broader application of reverse genetics, expression profiling, and molecular mapping in diverse species...
Integration of Cot analysis, DNA cloning, and high-throughput sequencing facilitates genome characterization and gene discoveryDaniel G Peterson
Center for Applied Genetic Technologies and Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Genome Res 12:795-807. 2002..High-throughput sequencing of Cot clones may be a means of "capturing" the sequence complexity of eukaryotic genomes at unprecedented efficiency...
Structure and evolution of cereal genomesAndrew H Paterson
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Curr Opin Genet Dev 13:644-50. 2003..Reduced-representation sequencing promises to accelerate gene discovery in many large-genome cereals, and to better link the under-explored genomes of 'orphan' cereals with state-of-the-art knowledge...
A comparative phylogenetic approach for dating whole genome duplication eventsBrad A Chapman
Department of Plant Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Bioinformatics 20:180-5. 2004..Understanding the timing of duplication events relative to divergence among taxa is critical to accurate and comprehensive cross-species comparisons...
Comparative genome analysis of monocots and dicots, toward characterization of angiosperm diversityAndrew H Paterson
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens GA 30602, USA
Curr Opin Biotechnol 15:120-5. 2004....
An SNP resource for rice genetics and breeding based on subspecies indica and japonica genome alignmentsF Alex Feltus
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Genome Res 14:1812-9. 2004..The data set is freely available at http://www.plantgenome.uga.edu/snp...
Emergence of a group 3 coronavirus through recombinationMark W Jackwood
Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, 953 College Station Road, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Virology 398:98-108. 2010....
Comparative physical mapping links conservation of microsynteny to chromosome structure and recombination in grassesJohn E Bowers
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:13206-11. 2005..Bridging of 35 physical gaps in the rice sequence by sorghum BAC contigs illustrates reciprocal benefits of comparative approaches that extend at least across the cereals and perhaps beyond...
Construction and characterization of a peanut HindIII BAC libraryB Yuksel
Plant Genome Mapping Lab, The University of Georgia, 111 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30605, USA
Theor Appl Genet 111:630-9. 2005..This BAC library has great potential to advance future research about the peanut genome...
Investigation of genomic organization in switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) using DNA markersA M Missaoui
The Center for Applied Genetic Technologies, University of Georgia, 111 Riverbend Rd, Athens, GA, 30602 6810, USA
Theor Appl Genet 110:1372-83. 2005..The information presented in this study establishes a foundation for extending genetic mapping in this crop and constitutes a framework for basic and applied genetic studies...
Exploratory integration of peanut genetic and physical maps and possible contributions from ArabidopsisB Yuksel
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, The University of Georgia, 111 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30605, USA
Theor Appl Genet 111:87-94. 2005..We also evaluated the possible correlation between functional categories of Arabidopsis overgos and their success rates in hybridization to the peanut BAC library...
Transmission genetics of chromatin from a synthetic amphidiploid to cultivated peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.). broadening the gene pool of a monophyletic polyploid speciesM D Burow
Department of Crop and Soil Science, University of Georgia, Athens, 30602, USA
Genetics 159:823-37. 2001..Unexpectedly, 68% of the markers deviating from expected segregation showed an excess of the synthetic parent allele. Genetic consequences, relationship to species origins, and significance for comparative genetics are discussed...
The repetitive landscape of the chicken genomeThomas Wicker
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Genome Res 15:126-36. 2005..This study also exemplifies the power of the CBCS method to create representative databases for the repetitive fractions of genomes for which only limited sequence data is available...
Domestication and plant genomesHaibao Tang
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Curr Opin Plant Biol 13:160-6. 2010....
Genetic mapping of a cross between Gossypium hirsutum (cotton) and the Hawaiian endemic, Gossypium tomentosumVijay N Waghmare
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Theor Appl Genet 111:665-76. 2005....
Molecular dissection of phenotypic variation between Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium barbadense (cotton) by a backcross-self approach: III. Fiber lengthPeng W Chee
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Theor Appl Genet 111:772-81. 2005..The availability of DNA markers linked to G. barbadense QTLs identified in this and other studies promise to assist breeders in transferring and maintaining valuable traits from exotic sources during cultivar development...
EST derived PCR-based markers for functional gene homologues in cottonPeng W Chee
University of Georgia, Coastal Plain Experimental Station, Tifton, GA 31793, USA
Genome 47:449-62. 2004..Digestion of PCR-amplified sequences offers one means by which cotton genes can be mapped to their chromosomal locations more quickly and economically than by RFLP analysis...
QUBIC: a qualitative biclustering algorithm for analyses of gene expression dataGuojun Li
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Computational Systems Biology Laboratory, Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Nucleic Acids Res 37:e101. 2009..QUBIC was written in ANSI C and tested using GCC (version 4.1.2) on Linux. Its source code is available at: http://csbl.bmb.uga.edu/ approximately maqin/bicluster. A server version of QUBIC is also available upon request...
Genetic mapping and comparative analysis of seven mutants related to seed fiber development in cottonJunkang Rong
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Theor Appl Genet 111:1137-46. 2005..Increasing knowledge of the correspondence of the cotton and Arabidopsis genomes provides several avenues by which genetic dissection of cotton fiber development may be accelerated...
Changes in nonstructural protein 3 are associated with attenuation in avian coronavirus infectious bronchitis virusJ E Phillips
Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Virus Genes 44:63-74. 2012....
Molecular dissection of interspecific variation between Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium barbadense (cotton) by a backcross-self approach: I. Fiber elongationPeng Chee
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Theor Appl Genet 111:757-63. 2005....
Correspondence of trichome mutations in diploid and tetraploid cottonsAparna Desai
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA
J Hered 99:182-6. 2008..Studies of A genome diploids may help to clarify the genetic control of trichomes and fiber in both diploid and tetraploid cottons...
Functional dissection of drought-responsive gene expression patterns in Cynodon dactylon LChangsoo Kim
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, 111 Riverbend Road, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Plant Mol Biol 70:1-16. 2009....
Incongruent patterns of local and global genome size evolution in cottonCorrinne E Grover
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
Genome Res 14:1474-82. 2004....
Comparative population genetics of the panicoid grasses: sequence polymorphism, linkage disequilibrium and selection in a diverse sample of sorghum bicolorMartha T Hamblin
Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
Genetics 167:471-83. 2004..Comparisons of polymorphism and divergence suggest that both directional and diversifying selection have played important roles in shaping variation in the sorghum genome...
High-density linkage mapping revealed suppression of recombination at the sex determination locus in papayaHao Ma
Department of Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
Genetics 166:419-36. 2004..This high-density genetic map is essential for cloning of specific genes of interest such as the sex determination gene and for the integration of genetic and physical maps of papaya...
Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolutionLadeana W Hillier
Genome Sequencing Center, Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8501, 4444 Forest Park Avenue, St Louis, Missouri 63108, USA
Nature 432:695-716. 2004..The distinctive properties of avian microchromosomes, together with the inferred patterns of conserved synteny, provide additional insights into vertebrate chromosome architecture...
A primitive Y chromosome in papaya marks incipient sex chromosome evolutionZhiyong Liu
Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, Aiea, Hawaii 96701, USA
Nature 427:348-52. 2004..This finding provides direct evidence for the origin of sex chromosomes from autosomes...
Comparative analysis of QTLs affecting plant height and flowering among closely-related diploid and polyploid genomesRay Ming
Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A and M University, College Station 77843, USA
Genome 45:794-803. 2002....
Rate variation among nuclear genes and the age of polyploidy in GossypiumDavid S Senchina
Department of Botany, Iowa State University, USA
Mol Biol Evol 20:633-43. 2003..Using the mean synonymous substitution rate calculated across the 48 genes, allopolyploid cotton is estimated to have formed circa 1.5 million years ago (MYA), after divergence of the diploid progenitors about 6.7 MYA...
Characterization of terminal-repeat retrotransposon in miniature (TRIM) in Brassica relativesTae Jin Yang
Department of Plant Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151 921, South Korea
Theor Appl Genet 114:627-36. 2007..Active roles of the TRIM elements for evolution of the duplicated genes are inferred in the highly replicated Brassica genome...
Integrative mapping of Gossypium hirsutum L. by meiotic fluorescent in situ hybridization of a tandemly repetitive sequence (B77)Yuanfu Ji
Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
Genetics 176:115-23. 2007..However, additional codominant DNA marker information in the affected region excluded the B77 polymorphism detected by Southern blot hybridization from chromosome 20 and, indeed, from the remainder of the genome...
Microcolinearity and genome evolution in the AdhA region of diploid and polyploid cotton (Gossypium)Corrinne E Grover
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
Plant J 50:995-1006. 2007..In conjunction with previous work, the data here confirm the conclusion that genome size evolution reflects many forces that collectively operate heterogeneously among genomic regions...
Chromosomal location and gene paucity of the male specific region on papaya Y chromosomeQingyi Yu
Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, Aiea, HI 96701, USA
Mol Genet Genomics 278:177-85. 2007..Our findings provide critical information for deciphering the sex chromosomes in papaya and reference information for comparative studies of other sex chromosomes in animals and plants...
Restriction landmark genome scanning method using isoschizomers (MspI/HpaII) for DNA methylation analysisTomoko Takamiya
Department of Molecular Genetics, National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
Electrophoresis 27:2846-56. 2006..Therefore, this result strongly indicates that the improved RLGS method is readily applicable to practical analyses of methylation dynamics, and provides clues to the relationship between methylation and gene expression...
Challenges of detecting directional selection after a bottleneck: lessons from Sorghum bicolorMartha T Hamblin
Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
Genetics 173:953-64. 2006..Despite a known history of recent selection, we find little evidence for directional selection, likely due to low statistical power and lack of an appropriate null model...
Physical and genetic structure of the maize genome reflects its complex evolutionary historyFusheng Wei
Arizona Genomics Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
PLoS Genet 3:e123. 2007..Reconstructing the paleoethnobotany of the maize genome indicates that the progenitors of modern maize contained ten chromosomes...
The draft genome of the transgenic tropical fruit tree papaya (Carica papaya Linnaeus)Ray Ming
Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, Aiea, Hawaii 96701, USA
Nature 452:991-6. 2008....
A global assembly of cotton ESTsJoshua A Udall
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, USA
Genome Res 16:441-50. 2006..The assembly and associated information provide a framework for future investigation of cotton functional and evolutionary genomics...
Toward sequencing cotton (Gossypium) genomesZ Jeffrey Chen
Plant Physiol 145:1303-10. 2007
A phylogenetic analysis of indel dynamics in the cotton genusCorrinne E Grover
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Iowa, USA
Mol Biol Evol 25:1415-28. 2008..Illegitimate recombination, although not demonstrated to be a dominant mechanism of genome size change, was biased in the polyploid toward deletions, which may provide a partial explanation of polyploid genomic downsizing...
Chromosome evolution in eukaryotes: a multi-kingdom perspectiveAvril Coghlan
Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland
Trends Genet 21:673-82. 2005..There is little evidence that chromosomal rearrangements cause speciation, but they probably intensify reproductive isolation between species that have formed by another route...
Molecular dissection of interspecific variation between Gossypium hirsutum and G. barbadense (cotton) by a backcross-self approach: II. Fiber finenessXavier Draye
Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Texas A and M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
Theor Appl Genet 111:764-71. 2005..barbadense in conventional breeding programs to improve upland cotton...
Efficient capture of unique sequences from eukaryotic genomesDaniel G Peterson
Dept of Plant and Soil Sciences, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA
Trends Genet 18:547-50. 2002..CBCS should accelerate comparative genomics research, especially in large genomes such as those of many crops...
Equilibrium processes cannot explain high levels of short- and medium-range linkage disequilibrium in the domesticated grass Sorghum bicolorMartha T Hamblin
Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
Genetics 171:1247-56. 2005..From a practical standpoint, these results suggest that S. bicolor is well suited for association studies using reasonable numbers of markers, since LD typically extends at least several kilobases but has largely decayed by 15 kb...
Genetic, physical, and informatics resources for maize. On the road to an integrated mapKaren C Cone
Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211, USA
Plant Physiol 130:1598-605. 2002
Low X/Y divergence in four pairs of papaya sex-linked genesQingyi Yu
Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, Aiea, HI 96701, USA
Plant J 53:124-32. 2008..Our findings indicate that sex chromosomes did not evolve at the family level in Caricaceae, and reinforce the theory that sex chromosomes evolve at the species level in some lineages...
