Transcript Natural products and ecological interactions Adaptive evolution (i.e. “rapid”) Scents Colours

Natural products and ecological interactions
Adaptive evolution (i.e. “rapid”)
Scents
Colours
Pests
Pathogens
Flavours
Allelopathy
The gene cluster is close to the telomere
15 kb Sad1 probe
Where synteny breaks down…
• Rapidly evolving regions of genomes
• Conserved motifs shared by co-regulated
genes
• Determining the sequence of evolution of
members of multigene families
• Determining the sequence of evolution of
combinations of genes
Wish list
• Reliable ORF designations; reliable sequence
information
• Sceptical of text annotation – prefer using a
set of “probe” sequences or Pfam domains
• Positional information – Genomic context
• Searchable gene expression data
(Genevestigator-like)
• Recombination frequencies
• Degree of divergence across
accessions/species/broader