The evolution of the MUC7 gene, which encodes a saliva protein, was studied by scientists at the University at Buffalo. To capture the gene’s proline-, threonine-, and serine-rich tandem repeat copy ...

A new study challenges the conventional wisdom surrounding genome stability within closely related organisms and sheds new light on the mechanisms underlying extensive genome size variation. Our ...

Pig (Sus scrofa) is by far one of the most globally distributed animal species maintaining two different ways of life: wild and domesticated. The great adaptability of wild boar makes it possible to ...

Copy number variation (CNV) is a type of structural variation ranging from 50 to several million base pairs (bp) 1,2,3,4,5. It is an unbalanced variation where a segment of the human genome can be ...

Various approaches have been developed to identify and quantitate copy-number variation. A new, high-resolution approach that already shows promise is digital PCR. As illustrated by many research ...

SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution) Generating genome sequence data from six additional C. psl. strains that differed markedly in the size of their genomes ...