The genesis of new cells, including neurons, in the adult human brain has not yet been
demonstrated. This study was undertaken to investigate whether neurogenesis occurs in the …

Sorghum, an African grass related to sugar cane and maize, is grown for food, feed, fibre
and fuel. We present an initial analysis of the ∼730-megabase Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench …

The distal human intestine represents an anaerobic bioreactor programmed with an enormous
population of bacteria, dominated by relatively few divisions that are highly diverse at the …

Comparative analysis of molecular sequence data is essential for reconstructing the evolutionary
histories of species and inferring the nature and extent of selective forces shaping the …

We announce the release of an advanced version of the Molecular Evolutionary Genetics
Analysis (MEGA) software, which currently contains facilities for building sequence alignments, …

The human gut is populated with as many as 100 trillion cells, whose collective genome, the
microbiome, is a reflection of evolutionary selection pressures acting at the level of the host …

In vertebrates, including humans, individuals harbor gut microbial communities whose
species composition and relative proportions of dominant microbial groups are tremendously …

Background Illumina's second-generation sequencing platform is playing an increasingly
prominent role in modern DNA and RNA sequencing efforts. However, rapid, simple, …

Polyploidy often confers emergent properties, such as the higher fibre productivity and quality
of tetraploid cottons than diploid cottons bred for the same environments 1 . Here we show …

Upland cotton is a model for polyploid crop domestication and transgenic improvement. Here
we sequenced the allotetraploid Gossypium hirsutum L. acc. TM-1 genome by integrating …