Posts Tagged ‘pgenes’
High-throughput discovery of novel developmental phenotypes : Nature : Nature Research
Thursday, September 22nd, 2016HTP discovery of novel developmental #phenotypes
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v537/n7621/full/nature19356.html New list of essential genes for the mouse, upping number to ~2900
Kruglyak paper on C. elegans
Thursday, January 2nd, 2014A paper on C. elegans that’s very informative:
http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v44/n3/full/ng.1050.html
Chromosome-scale selective sweeps shape Caenorhabditis elegans genomic diversity
Most notable of their findings is evidence of recent selective sweeps on chromosomes I, IV, V and (sort of) X. These sweeps have the potential to fix pseudogenes that might have been present at the time.