Georgiana May

TL;DR: Combining information about genomic segmental duplications, gene family phylogenies, and gene positions provides a method to evaluate contributions of tandem duplication and segmental genome duplication in the generation and maintenance of gene families.

TL;DR: Phylogenetic relationships among the NBS-LRR (nucleotide binding site–leucine-rich repeat) resistance gene homologues from 30 genera and nine families were evaluated relative to phylogenies for these taxa, suggesting preferential expansions or losses of certain RGH types within particular taxa and suggesting that no one species will provide models for all major sequence types in other taxa.

TL;DR: GenBank, the public repository for nucleotide and protein sequences, is a critical resource for molecular biology, evolutionary biology, and ecology as discussed by the authors, and some attention has been drawn to sequence errors ([1][1]), common annotation errors also reduce the value of this database.

TL;DR: An evolutionary model is proposed that relates processes of genome evolution to mechanisms of evolution for the large, diverse, NBS-LRR gene family and shows that once translocated to new chromosome locations, NBM copies have a greater likelihood of escaping intergenic exchange and adopting new functions than do gene copies located within the same chromosomal region.

TL;DR: GenBank, the public repository for nucleotide and protein sequences, is a critical resource for molecular biology, evolutionary biology, and ecology and some attention has been drawn to sequence errors.