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SUMMARY:Structural variability in plant genomes. The case of Cucurbits. - 
 Professor Pere Puigdomènech. Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics
 . CSIC-IRTA-UAB_UB. Barcelona. Spain
DTSTART:20130710T130000Z
DTEND:20130710T140000Z
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CONTACT:Elisabeth Burmeister
DESCRIPTION:Cucurbitaceae is a family of plant species that is of interest
  for a number of scientific\, economic and social reasons. Melon\, cucumbe
 r\, watermelon and squashes are the best known species in the family. Geno
 me sequences from them are being published and they allow analysing the ge
 nomic bases of traits of interest. These genomes are of intermediate size 
 (300-400 Mbases)\, annotation programmes identify around 27000 genes and n
 o evidence for recent genome duplications is found. By resequencing the ge
 nomes of melon varieties and comparing the genomes of related species it i
 s possible to study specific regions of high variability such as those for
 med by cluster of sequences with similarity to resistance genes. In this w
 ay hypotheses about how different mechanisms of genomic variability exist 
 in different species may be formulated.
LOCATION:Auditorium of The Sainsbury Laboratory (Bateman Street)
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