Comparative genomics of Arabidopsis and maize: prospects and limitations
1 Department of Zoology and Genetics and Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50010, USA
2 Technische Fakultät, Universität Bielefeld, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany
3 Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA
Genome Biology 2002, 3:reviews1005-reviews1005.6 doi:10.1186/gb-2002-3-3-reviews1005
Published: 14 February 2002Abstract
The completed Arabidopsis genome seems to be of limited value as a model for maize genomics. In addition to the expansion of repetitive sequences in maize and the lack of genomic micro-colinearity, maize-specific or highly-diverged proteins contribute to a predicted maize proteome of about 50,000 proteins, twice the size of that of Arabidopsis.
