Evolutionary forces affecting synonymous variations in plant genomes

High-Resolution Mapping of Crossover and Non-crossover Recombination Events by Whole-Genome Re-sequencing of an Avian Pedigree

(2016) Linnéa Smeds et al.   PLoS Genetics

GC-biased gene conversion links the recombination landscape and demography to genomic base composition

(2015) Carina F. Mugal et al.   BIOESSAYS

The Rate and Molecular Spectrum of Spontaneous Mutations in the GC-Rich Multichromosome Genome of Burkholderia cenocepacia

(2015) Marcus M. Dillon et al.   GENETICS

Introns Structure Patterns of Variation in Nucleotide Composition inArabidopsis thalianaand Rice Protein-Coding Genes

(2015) Adrienne Ressayre et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Quantification of GC-biased gene conversion in the human genome

(2015) Sylvain Glémin et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Widely distributed hot and cold spots in meiotic recombination as shown by the sequencing of rice F2plants

(2015) Weina Si et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Gramene 2016: comparative plant genomics and pathway resources

(2015) Marcela K. Tello-Ruiz et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Meiotic recombination hotspots - a comparative view

(2015) Kyuha Choi et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Crossovers are associated with mutation and biased gene conversion at recombination hotspots

(2015) Barbara Arbeithuber et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Stable recombination hotspots in birds

(2015) S. Singhal et al.   SCIENCE

Dissecting meiotic recombination based on tetrad analysis by single-microspore sequencing in maize

(2015) Xiang Li et al.   Nature Communications

Extreme Recombination Frequencies Shape Genome Variation and Evolution in the Honeybee, Apis mellifera

(2015) Andreas Wallberg et al.   PLoS Genetics

GC-Content Evolution in Bacterial Genomes: The Biased Gene Conversion Hypothesis Expands

(2015) Florent Lassalle et al.   PLoS Genetics

Non-crossover gene conversions show strong GC bias and unexpected clustering in humans

(2015) Amy L Williams et al.   eLife

The Rate and Molecular Spectrum of Spontaneous Mutations in the GC-Rich Multichromosome Genome of Burkholderia cenocepacia

(2015) Marcus M. Dillon et al.   GENETICS

The Bimodal Distribution of Genic GC Content Is Ancestral to Monocot Species

(2014) Yves Clément et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

GC content evolution in coding regions of angiosperm genomes: a unifying hypothesis

(2014) Sylvain Glémin et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

The Red Queen Model of Recombination Hotspots Evolution in the Light of Archaic and Modern Human Genomes

(2014) Yann Lesecque et al.   PLoS Genetics

GC-Biased Gene Conversion in Yeast Is Specifically Associated with Crossovers: Molecular Mechanisms and Evolutionary Significance

(2013) Yann Lesecque et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Population Genomic Analysis Reveals No Evidence for GC-Biased Gene Conversion in Drosophila melanogaster

(2013) Matthew C. Robinson et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Arabidopsis meiotic crossover hot spots overlap with H2A.Z nucleosomes at gene promoters

(2013) Kyuha Choi et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Is self-fertilization an evolutionary dead end?

(2013) Boris Igic et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Reference-Free Population Genomics from Next-Generation Transcriptome Data and the Vertebrate–Invertebrate Gap

(2013) Philippe Gayral et al.   PLoS Genetics

Evidence for Widespread GC-biased Gene Conversion in Eukaryotes

(2012) Eugénie Pessia et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Phylogenetic Patterns of GC-Biased Gene Conversion in Placental Mammals and the Evolutionary Dynamics of Recombination Landscapes

(2012) Nicolas Lartillot   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Rate of de novo mutations and the importance of father’s age to disease risk

(2012) Augustine Kong et al.   NATURE

Patterns and Evolution of Nucleotide Landscapes in Seed Plants

(2012) Laurana Serres-Giardi et al.   PLANT CELL

Ultra-fast sequence clustering from similarity networks with SiLiX

(2011) Vincent Miele et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Reduced Efficacy of Natural Selection on Codon Usage Bias in Selfing Arabidopsis and Capsella Species

(2011) Suo Qiu et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

GC-Biased Gene Conversion Impacts Ribosomal DNA Evolution in Vertebrates, Angiosperms, and Other Eukaryotes

(2011) Juan S. Escobar et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

GC-Biased Gene Conversion and Selection Affect GC Content in the Oryza Genus (rice)

(2011) Aline Muyle et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

MACSE: Multiple Alignment of Coding SEquences Accounting for Frameshifts and Stop Codons

(2011) Vincent Ranwez et al.   PLoS One

Preventing Dangerous Nonsense: Selection for Robustness to Transcriptional Error in Human Genes

(2011) Brian P. Cusack et al.   PLoS Genetics

Surprising Fitness Consequences of GC-Biased Gene Conversion: I. Mutation Load and Inbreeding Depression

(2010) S. Glemin   GENETICS

Contrasting GC-content dynamics across 33 mammalian genomes: Relationship with life-history traits and chromosome sizes

(2010) J. Romiguier et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

A Simple Multiallele Model and Its Application to Identifying Preferred-Unpreferred Codons Using Polymorphism Data

(2010) K. Zeng   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Patterns of Codon Usage Bias in Silene latifolia

(2010) S. Qiu et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Estimation of the Neutrality Index

(2010) N. Stoletzki et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Synonymous but not the same: the causes and consequences of codon bias

(2010) Joshua B. Plotkin et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Detecting positive selection within genomes: the problem of biased gene conversion

(2010) A. Ratnakumar et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Conservation of recombination hotspots in yeast

(2010) Isheng J. Tsai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Evidence That Mutation Is Universally Biased towards AT in Bacteria

(2010) Ruth Hershberg et al.   PLoS Genetics

Biased Gene Conversion and the Evolution of Mammalian Genomic Landscapes

(2009) Laurent Duret et al.   Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Estimating Selection Intensity on Synonymous Codon Usage in a Nonequilibrium Population

(2009) K. Zeng et al.   GENETICS

Studying Patterns of Recent Evolution at Synonymous Sites and Intronic Sites in Drosophila melanogaster

(2009) Kai Zeng et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION

General Rules for Optimal Codon Choice

(2009) Ruth Hershberg et al.   PLoS Genetics

Nearly Neutrality and the Evolution of Codon Usage Bias in Eukaryotic Genomes

(2008) S. Subramanian   GENETICS

Coevolution of Codon Usage and tRNA Genes Leads to Alternative Stable States of Biased Codon Usage

(2008) P. G. Higgs et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

High-resolution mapping of meiotic crossovers and non-crossovers in yeast

(2008) Eugenio Mancera et al.   NATURE