Transcriptome analysis has important applications in many biological fields. However,
assembling a transcriptome without a known reference remains a challenging task requiring …

Symbiotic dinoflagellates belonging to the genus Symbiodinium are found in association
with a wide variety of shallow-water invertebrates and protists dwelling in tropical and …

… Juan I. Montoya-Burgos began his work on systematics and biogeography of neotropical
catfishes during his PhD work held at the University and the Museum of Natural History of …

A key component of the ongoing ENCODE project involves rigorous comparative sequence
analyses for the initially targeted 1% of the human genome. Here, we present orthologous …

Hox genes are central to the specification of structures along the anterior–posterior body axis
1 , 2 , and modifications in their expression have paralleled the emergence of diversity in …

Zoantharia (or Zoanthidea) is the third largest order of Hexacorallia, characterised by two
rows of tentacles, one siphonoglyph and a colonial way of life. Current systematics of …

The mouse Fxy gene was translocated into the highly recombining pseudoautosomal region
comparatively recently in evolutionary terms. This event resulted in a rapid increase of GC …

The Neotropics possess the greatest freshwater fish diversity of the world, rendering the
study of their evolutionary history extremely challenging. Loricariidae catfishes are one of the …

Understanding the early evolution of placental mammals is one of the most challenging issues
in mammalian phylogeny. Here, we addressed this question by using the sequence data …

A comprehensive phylogenetic framework is indispensable for investigating the evolution of
genomic features in mammals as a whole, and particularly in humans. Using the ENCODE …