Zhixi Su

TL;DR: A more inclusive new approach for analyzing duplication history is introduced here, which reveals an ancient whole-genome duplication, a recent segmental duplication on Chromosomes 11 and 12, and massive ongoing individual gene duplications.

TL;DR: An updated version of DIVERGE is released with the following improvements: a feasible approach to examining functional divergence in nearly complete sequences by including deletions and insertions (indels); the calculation of the false discovery rate of functionally diverging sites; estimation of the effective number of functional divergence-related sites that is reliable and insensitive to cutoffs.

TL;DR: It is concluded that alternative splicing and gene duplication may not evolve independently, and young duplicates may take over a certain amount of protein function diversity that previously was carried out by the alternative splice mechanism in the early stage.

TL;DR: It is found that genes expressed in more stringent tissues generally tend to evolve more slowly than those in more relaxed tissues (e.g., neurorelated) and should be considered as an important component in shaping the pattern of genomic evolution and correlations.

TL;DR: This work aims to summarize the current state of available methylome data and features informatively and systematically review the features of whole genome DNA methylation patterns in eight animals, six plants and five fungi to provide new insights into the conservation and divergence in eukaryotes.