Comparative genomics. Empirical and analytical approaches to gene order dynamics, map alignment and the evolution of gene families. Papers at the DCAF workshop, Québec, Canada, September 22--25, 2000 (Q1612765)

The articles of this volume will be reviewed individually. Indexed articles: \textit{Faraut, Thomas; Demongeot, Jaques}, Benefits of a model of segregation for the understanding of chromosomal evolution, 13-18 [Zbl 1136.92330] \textit{McAllister, Bryant F.}, Fixation of chromosomal rearrangements, 19-27 [Zbl 1137.92357] \textit{O'Keefe, Christine; Eichler, Evan}, The pathological consequences and evolutionary implications of recent human genomic dupli\-cations, 29-46 [Zbl 1137.92359] \textit{McLysaght, Aoife; Seoighe, Cathal; Wolfe, Kenneth H.}, High frequency of inversions during eukaryote gene order evolution, 47-58 [Zbl 1137.92358] \textit{Brown, Gord; Martindale, Duane; Wilson, Michael D.; Koop, Ben F.}, Human and mouse DNA sequence comparisons: further evidence for a mosaic model of genomic evolution, 59-69 [Zbl 1137.92350] \textit{Demongeot, Jacques; Aracena, Juglio; Lamine, Samia Ben; Mermet, Marie-Ange; Cohen, Olivier}, Hot spots in chromosomal breakage: from description to etiology, 71-83 [Zbl 1137.92337] Rearrangements in small genomes, 87-88 [Zbl 1137.92332] \textit{Sankoff, David; Deneault, Mélanie; Bryant, David; Lemieux, Claude; Turmel, Monique}, Chloroplast gene order and the divergence of plants and algae, from the normalized number of induced breakpoints, 89-98 [Zbl 1137.92360] \textit{Cosner, Mary E.; Jansen, Robert K.; Moret, Bernard M. E.; Raubeson, Linda A.; Wang, Li-San; Warnow, Tandy; Wyman, Stacia}, An empirical comparison of phylogenetic methods on chloroplast gene order data in Campanula\-ceae, 99-121 [Zbl 1137.92351] \textit{Gallut, Cyril; Barriel, Véronique; Vignes, Régine}, Gene order and phylogenetic information, 123-132 [Zbl 1137.92354] \textit{Boore, Jeffrey L.}, The duplication/random loss model for gene rearrangement exemplified by mitochondrial genomes of deuterostome animals, 133-147 [Zbl 1137.92348] \textit{Nip, Alexander; Liu, Lin; Seif, Charbei; Lang, B. Franz; Burger, Gertraud}, MAPIT -- a semi-automated approach to the representation of genetic maps, 149-161 [Zbl 1137.92343] A new set of problems for a new kind of data, 165-170 [Zbl 1137.92363] \textit{Caprara, Alberto; Lancia, Giuseppe}, Experimental and statistical analysis of sorting by reversals, 171-183 [Zbl 1137.92309] \textit{Kleinberg, Jon; Liben-Nowell, David}, The syntenic diameter of the space of \(N\)-chromosome genomes, 185-197 [Zbl 1137.92356] \textit{Bafna, Vineet; Beaver, Donald; Fürer, Martin; Pevzner, Pavel A.}, Circular permutations and genome shuffling, 199-206 [Zbl 1137.92334] \textit{Bryant, David}, The complexity of calculating exemplar distances, 207-211 [Zbl 1137.92335] \textit{Meidanis, João; Dias, Zanoni}, An alternative algebraic formalism for genome rearrangements, 213-223 [Zbl 1137.92341] \textit{Pe'er, Itsik; Shamir, Ron}, Approximation algorithms for the median problem in the breakpoint model, 225-241 [Zbl 1137.92312] \textit{Goldberg, Debra S.; McCouch, Susan; Kleinberg, Jon}, Algorithms for constructing comparative maps, 243-261 [Zbl 1137.92355] Genome scrambling versus functional clustering, 265-266 [Zbl 1137.92333] \textit{Andersson, Siv G. E.; Eriksson, Kimmo}, Dynamics of gene order structures and genomic architectures, 267-280 [Zbl 1137.92306] \textit{Bork, Peter; Snel, Berend; Lehmann, Gerrit; Suyama, Mikita; Dandekar, Thomas; Lathe, Warren III; Huynen, Martijn}, Comparative genome analysis: expoliting the context of genes to infer evolution and predict function, 281-294 [Zbl 1137.92349] \textit{Sankoff, David; Parent, Marie-Noelle; Bryant, David}, Accuracy and robustness of analyses based on numbers of genes in observed segments, 299-306 [Zbl 1137.92314] \textit{Schoen, Daniel J.}, Marker density and estimates of chromosome rearrangement, 307-319 [Zbl 1137.92315] \textit{Waddington, David}, Estimating the number of conserved segments between species using a chromosome based model, 321-332 [Zbl 1137.92317] \textit{Dicks, Jo}, Chromtree: maximum likelihood estimation of chromosomal phylogenies, 333-342 [Zbl 1137.92352] \textit{Bed'Hom, Bertrand}, Evolution of karyotype organisation in Accipitridae: a translocation model, 347-356 [Zbl 1137.92347] \textit{Trachtulec, Zdenek; Forejt, Jirí}, Syntenies of unrelated genes conserved in mammals and nonvertrebrates (a review), 357-366 [Zbl 1137.92361] \textit{Lyons, Leslie A.}, Companion animal genetics, 367-399 [Zbl 1137.92340] \textit{Womack, James E.}, The essential role of comparative maps in livestock genomics, 401-109 [Zbl 1137.92346] \textit{Devos, Katrien M.}, Comparative genetics: from hexaploid wheat to arabidopsis, 411-423 [Zbl 1137.92338] \textit{Parkin, Isobel}, Unraveling crucifer genomes through comparative mapping, 425-437 [Zbl 1137.92344] \textit{Paterson, Andrew H.; Bowers, John E.; Burow, Mark D.; Draye, Xavier; Elsik, Christine G.; Jiang, Chun-xiao; Katsar, Catherine Susan; Lan, Tien-Hung; Lin, Yann-Rong; Ming, Reiguang; Wright, Robert J.}, Comparative genomics of plant chromosomes, 439-457 [Zbl 1137.92345] \textit{El-Mabrouk, Nadia}, Recovery of ancestral tetraploids, 465-477 [Zbl 1137.92353] \textit{Vision, Todd J.; Brown, Daniel G.}, Genome archaeology: detecting ancient polyploidy in contemporary genomes, 479-491 [Zbl 1137.92362] \textit{Hughes, Austin L.}, Polyoloidization and vertebrate origins: a review of the evidence, 493-502 [Zbl 1138.92360] \textit{Tiuryn, Jerzy; Radomski, Jan P.; Slonimski, Piotr P.}, A formal model of genomic DNA multiplication and amplification, 503-513 [Zbl 1138.92338] \textit{Hu, Xun}, A simple evolutionary model for genome phylogeny based on gene content, 515-523 [Zbl 1138.92359] \textit{Page, Roderic D. M.; Cotton, James A.}, Genetree: a tool for exploring gene family evolution, 525-536 [Zbl 1138.92361] \textit{Sankoff, David; El-Mabrouk, Nadia}, Duplication, rearrangement, and reconciliation, 537-550 [Zbl 1138.92362]