• MicroRNAs as Indicators into the Causes and Consequences of Whole-Genome Duplication Events 

      Peterson, Kevin; Beavan, Alan; Chabot, Peter J; McPeek, Mark A; Pisani, Davide; Fromm, Bastian; Simakov, Oleg (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-12-03)
      Whole-genome duplications (WGDs) have long been considered the causal mechanism underlying dramatic increases to morphological complexity due to the neo-functionalization of paralogs generated during these events. Nonetheless, an alternative hypothesis suggests that behind the retention of most paralogs is not neo-functionalization, but instead the degree of the inter-connectivity of the intended ...
    • MirGeneDB 2.1: toward a complete sampling of all major animal phyla 

      Fromm, Bastian; Høye, Eirik; Domanska, Diana; Zhong, Xiangfu; Aparicio-Puerta, Ernesto; Ovchinnikov, Vladimir; Umu, Sinan Ugur; Chabot, Peter J; Kang, Wenjing; Aslanzadeh, Morteza; Marmol-Sanchez, Emilio; Urgese, Gianvito; Johansen, Morten; Hovig, Eivind; Hackenberg, Michael; Friedländer, Marc R.; Peterson, Kevin (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-11-25)
      We describe an update of MirGeneDB, the manually curated microRNA gene database. Adhering to uniform and consistent criteria for microRNA annotation and nomenclature, we substantially expanded MirGeneDB with 30 additional species representing previously missing metazoan phyla such as sponges, jellyfish, rotifers and flatworms. MirGeneDB 2.1 now consists of 75 species spanning over ∼800 million ...