Evolutionary conservation is a potentially powerful method to identify functional regions of the genome 5,6. Coding regions are strongly conserved across species but comprise only ∼1.5% of the genome.

Premise of research. The transition from herbaceous annual to woody perennial has occurred numerous times during angiosperm evolution, but the suite of genetic changes that accompanies this life ...

We have previously described partial genomic sequences of arg, a human gene related to c-abl, and shown that it is expressed as a 12-kilobase transcript and is located at chromosome position 1q24-25.