Chapter !4 - Comparative Genomics Code : KSI0013
<Index of Chapter 4>
Introduction
Unity and diversity of life
Taxonomy based on sequences
Sizes and organization of genomes
Genome sizes
Viral genomes
Recombinant viruses
Influenza : a past and current threat
Genome Organization in prokaryotes
Replication and transcription
Gene transfer
Genome Organization in eukaryotes
Photosynthetic sea slugs : endosymbiosys of chloroplasts
How genomes differ
Variation at the level of individual nucleotides
Duplications
Comparisions at the chromosome level : synteny
What makes us human?
Comparative genomics
Combining the approaches : the FOXP2 gene
Genomes of chimpanzees and humans
Genomes of mice and rats
Model organisms for study of human diseases
The genome of Caenorhabditis elegans
The genome of Drosophilia melanogaster
Homologous genes in humans, worms, and flies
The ENCODE project
The modENCODE project