Articles selected by Faculty of 1000: Wolbachia ankyrin domain-encoding genes; horizontal gene transfer rates; profiling mental retardation; murine exon evolution; rice and Arabidopsis transcriptomes

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Wolbachia ankyrin domain-encoding genes; horizontal gene transfer rates; profiling mental retardation; murine exon evolution; rice and Arabidopsis transcriptomes

Wolbachia ankyrin domain-encoding genes

Distribution, expression, and motif variability of ankyrin domain genes in Wolbachia pipientis . Iturbe-Ormaetxe I, Burke GR, Riegler M, O'Neill SL. J Bacteriol 2005, 187:5136-5145.

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Horizontal gene transfer rates

The cobweb of life revealed by genome-scale estimates of horizontal gene transfer. Ge F, Wang LS, Kim J. PLoS Biol 2005, 3:e316.

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Profiling mental retardation

Diagnostic genome profiling in mental retardation. de Vries BB, Pfundt R, Leisink M, Koolen DA, Vissers LE, Janssen IM, Reijmersdal S, Nillesen WM, Huys EH, Leeuw N, et al. Am J Hum Genet 2005, 77:606-616.

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Murine exon evolution

Origin and evolution of new exons in rodents. Wang W, Zheng H, Yang S, Yu H, Li J, Jiang H, Su J, Yang L, Zhang J, McDermott J, et al. Genome Res 2005, 15:1258-1264.

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Rice and Arabidopsis transcriptomes

A microarray analysis of the rice transcriptome and its comparison to Arabidopsis . Ma L, Chen C, Liu X, Jiao Y, Su N, Li L, Wang X, Cao M, Sun N, Zhang X, et al. Genome Res 2005, 15:1274-1283.

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