Search for dissertations about: "Nicolas Lartillot"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Nicolas Lartillot.

2. 1. Reconciling gene family evolution and species evolution

   Author : Joel Sjöstrand; Jens Lagergren; Nicolas Lartillot; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Computational biology; Bioinformatics; Phylogenetics; Phylogenomics; Comparative genomics; Evolutionary biology; datalogi; Computer Science;

   Abstract : Species evolution can often be adequately described with a phylogenetic tree. Interestingly, this is the case also for the evolution of homologous genes; a gene in an ancestral species may – through gene duplication, gene loss, lateral gene transfer (LGT), and speciation events – give rise to a gene family distributed across contemporaneous species. READ MORE