Genome evolution is the process by which a genome changes in structure (sequence) or size over time. The study of genome evolution involves multiple fields...

genetics, a genome is all the genetic information of an organism. It consists of nucleotide sequences of DNA (or RNA in RNA viruses). The nuclear genome includes...

Genome Biology and Evolution is a monthly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for...

Bacterial genomes are generally smaller and less variant in size among species when compared with genomes of eukaryotes. Bacterial genomes can range in...

These are usually treated separately as the nuclear genome and the mitochondrial genome. Human genomes include both protein-coding DNA sequences and various...

Origins of Genome Architecture. Sinauer. ISBN 978-0-87893-484-3. Meyer A, van de Peer Y, eds. (2003). Genome evolution : gene and genome duplications...

resistance that occur naturally. In vitro evolution shows that there is potential for resistance evolution in relation to cefepime for both CMY-2 and...

in molecular evolution who concluded that the human genome could not contain more than 40,000 genes and that less than 10% of the genome was functional...

least in plant genomes, as accessory genes play "an important role in genome evolution and in the complex interplay between the genome and the environment"...

ratios of introns to intergenic sequence across animal genomes". Genome Biology and Evolution. 9 (6): 1582–1598. doi:10.1093/gbe/evx103. PMC 5534336....

Linnaeus 1766 (Bowfin) Amia ocellicauda Todd 1837 (Eyetail bowfin) The bowfin genome contains an intact ParaHox gene cluster, similar to the bichir and to most...

Mutation – Alteration in the nucleotide sequence of a genome Selection – Mechanism of evolution by differential survival and reproduction of individualsPages...

Genome size is the total amount of DNA contained within one copy of a single complete genome. It is typically measured in terms of mass in picograms (trillionths...

MADS-box gene family in plants, and karyotype evolution in mammals and plants. Furthermore, comparing two genomes not only reveals conserved domains or synteny...

2008). "Reconstruction of the genome origins and evolution of the hybrid lager yeast Saccharomyces pastorianus". Genome Research. 18 (10): 1610–1623....

transcriptome plasticity has come at the cost of slower genome evolution. The octopus genome is unremarkably bilaterian except for large developments of...

(family Syngnathidae).  Up until recently, the genome of leafy seadragons was unknown; but in 2022, their genome was fully annotated, along with weedy seadragons...

between genomes by means other than parent-to-offspring inheritance. Horizontal gene transfer has long been thought to be crucial to prokaryotic evolution, but...

The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the base pairs that make up human DNA, and...

epistatic manner. Evolution can occur if there is genetic variation within a population. Variation comes from mutations in the genome, reshuffling of genes...

between gene regulation (at least at the post-translational level) and genome evolution. Polyploidy is also a well known source of speciation, as offspring...

considered a nomen dubium. Based on Brownstein & Near (2024): The bowfin genome contains an intact ParaHox gene cluster, similar to the bichir and to most...

The long-term evolution experiments using E. coli, begun by Richard Lenski in 1988, have allowed direct observation of genome evolution over more than...

"Chromosome-level assembly of the horseshoe crab genome provides insights into its genome evolution". Nature Communications. 11 (1): 2322. Bibcode:2020NatCo...

mutation in the E. coli genome has occurred multiple times. The strain of E. coli Lenski chose to use in the long-term evolution experiment was derived...

Adaptive evolution in the human genome Amity–enmity complex Archaeogenetics Dual inheritance theory Dysgenics Evolution of human intelligence Evolution of morality...

occurs. However, an abundance of neutral repeats can still influence genome evolution as they accumulate over time. Overall, repeated sequences are an important...

(2008). "Both selective and neutral processes drive GC content evolution in the human genome". BMC Evol. Biol. 8 (1): 99. Bibcode:2008BMCEE...8...99P. doi:10...

2022). "An atlas of fish genome evolution reveals delayed rediploidization following the teleost whole-genome duplication". Genome Research. 32 (9): 1685–1697...

change its position within a genome, sometimes creating or reversing mutations and altering the cell's genetic identity and genome size. Transposition often...