John Bowers

Unravelling angiosperm genome evolution by phylogenetic analysis of chromosomal duplication events

Synteny and Collinearity in Plant Genomes

Correlated gene arrangements among taxa provide a valuable framework for inference of shared ancestry of genes and for the utilization of findings from model organisms to study ...

Unraveling ancient hexaploidy through multiply-aligned angiosperm gene maps

Large-scale (segmental or whole) genome duplication has been recurring in angiosperm evolution. Subsequent gene loss and rearrangements further affect gene copy numbers and frac...

Finding and Comparing Syntenic Regions among Arabidopsis and the Outgroups Papaya, Poplar, and Grape: CoGe with Rosids

Abstract In addition to the genomes of Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana) and poplar (Populus trichocarpa), two near-complete rosid genome sequences, grape (Vitis vinifera) and ...

Comparative inference of illegitimate recombination between rice and sorghum duplicated genes produced by polyploidization

Whole-genome duplication produces massive duplicated blocks in plant genomes. Sharing appreciable sequence similarity, duplicated blocks may have been affected by illegitimate r...