Project

The impact of gene and genome duplications on the evolution of development in angiosperms

Code

3E002206

Duration

01 October 2007 → 30 September 2013

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Yves Van de Peer

Fellow

Steven Maere

Research disciplines

Natural sciences
- Computational evolutionary biology, comparative genomics and population genomics
- Evolutionary developmental biology
- Molecular evolution
- Population, ecological and evolutionary genetics
- Plant genetics
- Systems biology not elsewhere classified

Keywords

systems biology bioinformatics evo-devo gene and genome duplications plants evolution

Project description

The goal of this project is to study the role of small- and large-scale duplications in the evolution of plant complexity and developmental processes (evo-devo) from a systems biology perspective. We will use advanced computational methods to reconstruct and analyse the gene network underlying developmental processes in plants, and assess the impact of genome duplications on the network structure.