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. 2014 Apr 8;111(14):5069-70.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1402378111. Epub 2014 Mar 27.

Evolution of a hot genome

Victor A Albert  1 , Tien-Hao Chang
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Evolution of a hot genome

Victor A Albert et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Figures

Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.
The genome of chile pepper in an evolutionary context. (A) A phylogeny of lamiid angiosperms, the family Solanaceae in yellow and chile pepper in red. (B) Syntenic dotplot of tomato chromosome 2 (vertical) versus chiltepin pepper chromosomes 2 (Upper) and 4 (Lower), with syntenic gene duplicates colored according to their Ks values (synonymous substitutions per synonymous site), as plotted in the x axis of C against numbers of gene pairs on the y axis. Ks, increasing along the x axis, is a proxy for time since speciation or gene duplication. Purple, orthologous synteny (youngest); blue, paralogous synteny descending from the triplication observed in Solanaceae; green, paralogous synteny dating to the paleohexaploidy event at the base of core eudicots (oldest). Note corresponding purple, blue, and green peaks in the Ks plot, the latter two subtle.
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  • Whole-genome sequencing of cultivated and wild peppers provides insights into Capsicum domestication and specialization.
    Qin C, Yu C, Shen Y, Fang X, Chen L, Min J, Cheng J, Zhao S, Xu M, Luo Y, Yang Y, Wu Z, Mao L, Wu H, Ling-Hu C, Zhou H, Lin H, González-Morales S, Trejo-Saavedra DL, Tian H, Tang X, Zhao M, Huang Z, Zhou A, Yao X, Cui J, Li W, Chen Z, Feng Y, Niu Y, Bi S, Yang X, Li W, Cai H, Luo X, Montes-Hernández S, Leyva-González MA, Xiong Z, He X, Bai L, Tan S, Tang X, Liu D, Liu J, Zhang S, Chen M, Zhang L, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Liao W, Zhang Y, Wang M, Lv X, Wen B, Liu H, Luan H, Zhang Y, Yang S, Wang X, Xu J, Li X, Li S, Wang J, Palloix A, Bosland PW, Li Y, Krogh A, Rivera-Bustamante RF, Herrera-Estrella L, Yin Y, Yu J, Hu K, Zhang Z. Qin C, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014 Apr 8;111(14):5135-40. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1400975111. Epub 2014 Mar 3. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2014. PMID: 24591624 Free PMC article.

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