ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION OF SINGLE COPY .pptVIP

* ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION OF SINGLE COPY ORTHOLOGS IN ARABIDOPSIS, LETTUCE, SUNFLOWER AND OTHER PLANT SPECIES. Alexander Kozik and Richard W. Michelmore University of California, Davis, Dept. of Vegetable Crops, Davis, CA 95616, USA Approximately 3,700 of the genes in the Arabidopsis Col-0 genome are single copy. These genes were used to identify conserved orthologs in several other plant species. Using computational approaches we identified 1104 lettuce, 686 sunflower, 1704 tomato, 2016 soybean, 1701 maize and 1290 rice ESTs that are conserved orthologs to these Arabidopsis genes. Each