For Friday:

Review gene and genome rearrangements.

• How would a misplaced origin of replication look like if two similar genomes are compared in a gene plot?
• Which part of a circular bacterial genome is least conserved?
• How would an inversion inside a protein coding gene look like in dotlet? (If you compare the two proteins? If you compare one protein to the encoding DNA sequence?)
• How would a large inversion look like in a gene plot?
• Check Monday's slides for example on genome rearrangment.

• Read through taxplot info on Monday's page
• Bring user numbers and passwords for cluster
• Please follow this link to the on-line surveys that are open for you this semester.

Slides for today on supertrees, supermatrix, decomposition approaches.

Discussion of holobiont evolution -- natuaral selection, Lamarckian, neutral pathways to complexity?