Animal Genomes and Epigenomes 2.0
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 2621
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mammalian centromeres; neo-centromeres; centromere evolution; telomeres; telomere transcription; interstitial telomeres; genomics of horse and other equids; comparative genomics; gene amplification; molecular cytogenetics; ChIP-seq; production of recombinant proteins in mammalian cells
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Interests: genome stability; centromere and karyotype evolution; comparative genomics; centromere biology; telomeres and interstitial telomeres
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is a continuation of our previous Special Issue “Animal Genomes and Epigenomes”.
The growing number of sequenced animal genomes is paving the way to the study of chromatin organization, genomics, comparative genomics and molecular evolution. Although the basic molecular processes are largely conserved in animals, several differences can be observed among species. For example, while telomere maintenance is usually accomplished by telomerase-based mechanisms, in some species, such as Drosophila, retrotransposons are involved in preserving chromosome ends. Another example comes from the centromeric function that is typically associated with defined chromosomal regions but, in some nematodes and arthropods, covers the entire length of chromosomes.
After almost two decades of the ENCODE initiative, the approach that has been used to understand the biology of the human genome and epigenome is now being applied to a number of domestic and wild animal species. In this context, an international collaboration, named Functional Annotation of Animal Genomes (FAANG), is carrying out a coordinated effort to systematically annotate farmed animal genomes and investigate the genotype-to-phenotype connection.
In the present Special Issue, reviews and research articles related to analyses of animal genomes and epigenomes are welcomed, with the goal of improving the knowledge of basic molecular processes and unraveling their evolution.
Prof. Dr. Elena Giulotto
Dr. Francesca M. Piras
Dr. Eleonora Cappelletti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- animals
- chromatin organization
- genomics
- comparative genomics
- genome annotation
- molecular evolution
- NGS methodologies
