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