Chapter 18: Eukaryotic Genomes
This page offers web documents and resources that are referred to in Chapter 18. Figure 18.1 presents a tree by Baldauf et al. showing the relationships of the eukaryotes, and in the chapter we follow this tree from bottom up. Topics include the protozoans (Trichomonas, Giardia); unicellular pathogens (trypanosomes and Leishmania); the Chromalveolates (the malaria parasite P. falciparum and other apicomplexans; the ciliophora Paramecium and Tetrahymena; nucleomorphs; Stramenopiles such as diatoms); the plants; and slime molds. When we arrive at the metazoans (animals) we divide these into the great groups of nematodes (such as the worm C. elegans), insects (e.g. fruitfly, mosquito, honeybee), and chordates (Ciona). We conclude with descriptions of fish (diverged from humans about 450 million years ago [MYA]), chickens (310 MYA), opposum (180 MYA), mammals from dog to cow (100 MYA), rodents (80 MYA), and primates (50-5 MYA). For each organism we survey its genome, highting key properties, web resources, and bioinformatics problems.
| Web documents | Page |
Description |
| Web Document 18-1 | 758 |
metazoan (animal) kingdom superphyla and phyla |
| Web Document 18-2 | 758 |
phylum bilateria including the Coelomata (animals with a body cavity), Acoelomata (animals lacking a body cavity such as flatworms) and Pseudocoelomata (such as the roundworm C. elegans) |
| Web Document 18-3 | 778 |
Web resources for the study of the mouse and rat |
| Web Document 18-4 | 779 |
Primate lysozyme sequences used for phylogenetic analysis |
| Web Document 18-5 | 780 |
Primate resources |
| Web Document 18-6 | 782 |
256,157 bases of DNA from a eukaryotic genome in the fasta format |
Chapter 18 Resources |
| Powerpoint of the eukaryotic genomes lecture from Genomics (November 23, 2009) |
| Course site for Genomics (260.605, 2nd quarter 2009-2010). This companion site includes information such as the class schedule and assignments. |
| Key URLs: NCBI BLAST page; UCSC |
Last update 29 Jan., 2010