Guillaume Blanc

TL;DR: The Phylogeny.fr platform transparently chains programs to automatically perform phylogenetic analyses and can also meet the needs of specialists; the first ones will find up-to-date tools chained in a phylogeny pipeline to analyze their data in a simple and robust way, while the specialists will be able to easily build and run sophisticated analyses.

TL;DR: The unusual age profile of tandem gene duplications in Arabidopsis indicates that other scenarios, such as variation in the rate at which duplicated genes are deleted, must also be considered.

TL;DR: Functional diversification of the surviving duplicated genes is a major feature of the long-term evolution of polyploidy, and the rate of protein sequence evolution has been significantly asymmetric in >20% of duplicate pairs.

TL;DR: BLAST-Explorer is an original and friendly web-based application that combines a BLAST search with a suite of tools that allows interactive, phylogenetic-oriented exploration of theBLAST results and flexible selection of homologous sequences among the BLAST hits.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the Arabidopsis lineage underwent at least two distinct episodes of duplication, one of which was a polyploidy that occurred much more recently than estimated previously and probably during the early emergence of the crucifer family.