Xiaohong Zhang

TL;DR: Excess divergence specifically indicative of subfunctionalization and/or neofunctionalization contributes to the maintenance of most if not all duplicated regulatory genes in Arabidopsis and it is hypothesized that this results in increasing expression diversity or specificity of regulatory genes after each round of duplication.

TL;DR: An exhaustive search for cyclin genes in the Arabidopsis genome and among available sequences from other vascular plants results imply that the cyclin gene family in plants has experienced more gene duplication events than in animals.

TL;DR: The MAD NAAT prototype was used to characterize a set of human nasal swab specimens pre-screened for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria, and consistently detected MRSA in these specimens.

TL;DR: Initial comparisons illustrate the utility of the EST data sets toward discovery of the basic floral transcriptome and address a number of conspicuous evolutionary genomic questions, including reproductive organ transcriptome overlap between angiosperms and gymnosperms, genome-wide duplication history, lineage-specific gene duplication and functional divergence, and analyses of adaptive molecular evolution.

TL;DR: RT-PCR results of selected genes are consistent with the results from these microarrays and suggest that the relative signal intensities detected with the Affymetrix microarray are reliable estimates of gene expression.