Angisperm ancestral genome reconstruction

Collaboration of:

• Chunfang Zheng
• David Sankoff
• Haibao Tang
• Eric Lyons

Overview

Zheng and Sankoff have developed and continue to refine a mathematical framework for reconstructing ancestral genome states of various angiosperm lineages using syntenic blocks identified by SynMap, an interactive tool for the pairwise comparison of whole genomes development by Tang and Lyons. This problem is complicated by whole genome duplications, a common occurrence in angiosperm lineages.

Of particular interest are:

1. the ancestral genome of the eudicots which have undergone a paleohexaploidy