Articles selected by Faculty of 1000: meiosis evolution; picoeukaryote cell-cycle genes; identifying targets of small molecules; rice genome evolution; circadian gene expression cyanobacteria

A selection of evaluations from Faculty of 1000 covering meiosis evolution; picoeukaryote cell-cycle genes; identifying targets of small molecules; rice genome evolution; circadian gene expression cyanobacteria.

Subject areas: Molecular biology, Genetics, Genome studies, Cell biology, Plant biology

The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at: http://genomebiology.com/2005/6/4/318/

Published:

11 March 2005

Genome Biology 2005, 6:318

Meiosis evolution

A phylogenomic inventory of meiotic genes; evidence for sex in Giardia and an early eukaryotic origin of meiosis. Ramesh MA, Malik SB, Logsdon JM. Curr Biol 2005, 15:185-191.

For the Faculty of 1000 evaluation of this article please see: http://genomebiology.com/reports/F1000/gb-2005-6-4-318.asp#Ramesh webcite

Picoeukaryote cell-cycle genes

Genome-wide analysis of core cell cycle genes in the unicellular green alga Ostreococcus tauri. Robbens S, Khadaroo B, Camasses A, Derelle E, Ferraz C, Inzé D, Van de Peer Y, Moreau H. Mol Biol Evol 2005, 22:589-597.

For the Faculty of 1000 evaluation of this article please see: http://genomebiology.com/reports/F1000/gb-2005-6-4-318.asp#Robbens webcite

Identifying targets of small molecules

A genome-wide overexpression screen in yeast for small-molecule target identification. Luesch H, Wu TY, Ren P, Gray NS, Schultz PG, Supek F. Chem Biol 2005, 12:55-63.

For the Faculty of 1000 evaluation of this article please see: http://genomebiology.com/reports/F1000/gb-2005-6-4-318.asp#Luesch webcite

Rice genome evolution

Duplication and DNA segmental loss in the rice genome: implications for diploidization. Wang X, Shi X, Hao B, Ge S, Luo J. New Phytol 2005, 165:937-946.

For the Faculty of 1000 evaluation of this article please see: http://genomebiology.com/reports/F1000/gb-2005-6-4-318.asp#Wang webcite

Circadian gene expression cyanobacteria

Global analysis of circadian expression in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803. Kucho K, Okamoto K, Tsuchiya Y, Nomura S, Nango M, Kanehisa M, Ishiura M. J Bacteriol 2005, 187:2190-2199.

For the Faculty of 1000 evaluation of this article please see: http://genomebiology.com/reports/F1000/gb-2005-6-4-318.asp#Kucho webcite