synteny
noun
the presence of two or more genes on the same chromosome
syntenic
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a word derived from
synteny.
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Each line represents a syntenic block of five or more gene pairs with similarity of 80% or more.
From Nature ● May 8, 2018
The syntenic relationships between the coding sequences of the chromosomal regions surrounding these FT genes were visualized using the CoGE65 GEvo tool and the Multi-Genome Synteny Viewer66.
From Nature ● Feb. 7, 2017
The default uses LAST71 to perform similarity searches, and DAGchainer72 to find syntenic regions.
From Nature ● Dec. 25, 2016
These genes, found on chromosome 3 in Eucalyptus, are part of a syntenic set of genes found on Populus chromosome XVIII, indicating that these genes pre-date the speciation events that separate these genera.
From Nature ● Jun. 10, 2014
Then, in each syntenic block we applied Shuffle-LAGAN a second time to obtain a more fine-grained map of small-scale rearrangements such as inversions.
From Nature ● Jun. 10, 2014
