Glossary
A list of terms used in various pages in this wiki that may need clarification.
Genomic Evolution Terminology
- Biased fractionation
- Chromosome Rearrangement
- Conserved Non-Coding Sequence (CNS)
- Contig
- Deletion
- Diploidization
- DNA alignment
- Dotplot
- Fractionation
- Genespace
- Genomic Feature
- High-scoring segment pair (HSP)
- Homolog
- Homeolog
- Insertion
- In-Paralog
- Inversion
- Local Gene Duplication
- Neofunctionalization
- Ortholog
- Out-Paralog
- Paleopolyploid
- Paralog
- Perfect Ortholog
- Polyploid
- Protein alignment
- Repeat sequence
- Subfunctionalization
- Synonymous/Nonsynonymous Mutations (Ks/Kn)
- Syntelog
- Synteny
- Tandem Gene Duplication
- Transposition
- Whole Genome Duplication
Methodology
- Collinear Gene Order for detecting syntenic regions
- Flanking Gene Method for detecting gene loss and transposition events
- Useful divergence for comparing genomic regions