Comparative genomics : using fungi as models / Per Sunnerhagen, Jure Piškur (editions.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents Comparative genomics and gene finding in fungi / Marina Axelson-Fisk, Per Sunnerhagen Taxonomy and phylogenetic diversity among the yeasts / Cletus P. Kurtzman, Jure Piskur Structural features of fungal genomes / Phatthanaphong Wanchanthuek, Peter F. Hallin, Rodrigo Gouveia-Oliveira, David Ussery Duplication of genes and genomes in yeasts / Simon Wong, Kenneth H. Wolfe Telomeres in fungi / Marita Cohn, Gianni Liti, David B. H. Barton Employing protein size in the functional analysis of orthologous proteins, as illustrated with the yeast HOG pathway / Marcus Krantz, Stefan Hohmann Lager brewing yeast / Yukiko Kodama, Morten C. Kielland-Brandt, Jorgen Hansen Genome evolution : lessons from genolevures / Monique Bolotin-Fukuhara, Serge Casaregola, Michel Aigle The genome of the filamentous fungus Ashbya gossypli : annotation and evolutionary implications / Sophie Brachat, Fred Dietrich, Sylvia Voegeli, Tom Gaffney, Peter Philippsen Schizosaccharomyces pombe comparative genomics; from sequence to systems / Valerie Wood

Fungal comparative genomics started in 2000 by the genome sequencing of several yeast species other than the canonical Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Since then, over 30 fungal genome sequences have become available. This set represents a total evolutionary divergence comparable to that between vertebrates and arthropods, but also contains closely related genomes. This volume describes how we can use this set of genomes to trace large and small-scale events in genome evolution, to extract information about highly conserved and less conserved sequence elements, and to develop novel methods in genomics that will have an impact on genomics at large