Adachi and Lieber found that bi-directional gene pairs are conserved in higher eukaryotes and suggest the accepted explanation that a single promoter drives the expression of both genes.
Roland Krause
Roland is a bioinformatician at the Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine. He received his undergraduate degree in biotechnological engineering and a PhD in biochemistry from the University of Heidelberg. His postdoc was in computational biology at the MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, shared with the computer science and math department of the Free University Berlin.