Here are examples of queries in Genomicus that illustrate key features of the browser and highlight the benefits of examining comparative genomic data in a broad phylogenetic perspective.

• cyl-1 (Caenorhabditis elegans)
  
  The cyl-1 gene in C. elegans on Chromosome V is in a region that displays an unusal number of orthologs and paralogs in very distant metazoans such as Drosophila, Trichoplax, Amphimedon. The gene is in three tandem copies in Sea urchin.
  
  
• DappuG44061 (Daphnia pulex)
  
  A histone cluster seen from the perspective of the Daphnia genome on scaffold 6.
  
  
• eve (Drosophila melanogaster)
  
  The eve gene in Drosophila melanogaster is on the edge of an evolutionary breakpoint, that seems specific to the melanogaster subgroup. It interrupts the synteny with other species of the Drosophila group.
  
  
• phantom (Drosophila melanogaster)
  
  The phm gene on Drosophila melanogaster chromosome X, and its tandem duplicated neighbour Cyp18a1 are in a well preserved configuration. The tandem duplication is extremely old, as it is also present in most other Arthropods.