When was the word mesosynteny first used to describe the unique features of fungal genomes? How old is the discovery?
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$\begingroup$ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1364-3703.2009.00591.x/… $\endgroup$ – VicAche Dec 20 '15 at 22:10
Use of mesosynteny was proposed in 2011 in this paper:
which says:
This pattern is characterized by the conservation of gene content in chromosomes, without conservation of gene order or orientation; that is, synteny without co-linearity. We propose to call this sequence conservation 'mesosynteny' to distinguish it from micro- and macrosynteny. Mesosynteny appears to be peculiar to the filamentous Ascomycetes (syn. Pezizomycotina), particularly in the class Dothideomycetes.