1. Synteny between the mouse and human genomes
Alec MacAndrew
The draft mouse genome was published on 6th December 2002 , Waterstone et al, Nature 420, 520 - 562
Note that this is a 43 page paper (Nature averages 2 -3 pages per paper) with around 200 authors and 330 references. This is all new to science and the volume of material is more than a very fat text book if one includes the references . The detail is published not in a single paper, but in about six related papers occupying more than half of the super fat 6th December issue of Nature. |
Synteny
Synteny between species means not only that orthologous (functionally and ancestrally identical) genes are present but that they are present in the same order on the genome, thus indicating common ancestry.