Visualizing genomic evolution in Caenorhabditis through WormSynteny.

Understanding the syntenic relationships among genomes is crucial to elucidate the genomic mechanisms that drive the evolution of species. The nematode Caenorhabditis is a good model for studying genomic evolution due to the well-established biology of Caenorhabditis elegans and the availability of > 50 genomes in the genus. However, effective alignment of more than ten species in Caenorhabditis has not been conducted before, and there is currently no tool to visualize the synteny of more than two species.