syntenic
- 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
Using software MCScanX65 with at least three syntenic genes, we identified orthologous blocks and plotted homologous proteins among wheat genomes.
From Nature ● May 8, 2018
Scaffolds equal to approximately 75% of the ash genome assembly for which syntenic blocks were not detected are not shown.
From Nature ● Dec. 25, 2016
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
Gene models within the syntenic blocks were compared based on a sliding window representing 10 gene models with an allowance of two intercalated gene models.
From Nature ● Jun. 10, 2014