Affordable, high-throughput DNA sequencing has accelerated the pace of genome
assembly over the past decade. Genome assemblies from high-throughput, short-read …

Sex chromosomes are a great example of a convergent evolution at the genomic level,
having evolved dozens of times just within amniotes. An intriguing question is whether this …

Microchromosomes are prevalent in nonmammalian vertebrates [PD Waters et al., Proc.
Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 118 (2021)], but a few of them are missing in bird genome assemblies …

Microchromosomes, once considered unimportant shreds of the chicken genome, are gene-
rich elements with a high GC content and few transposable elements. Their origin has been …

Here we use a chromosome-level genome assembly of a prairie rattlesnake (Crotalus
viridis), together with Hi-C, RNA-seq, and whole-genome resequencing data, to study key …

Ancestral sequence reconstruction is a fundamental aspect of molecular evolution studies
and can trace small-scale sequence modifications through the evolution of genomes and …

The study of chromosome evolution is undergoing a resurgence of interest owing to
advances in DNA sequencing technology that facilitate the production of chromosome-scale …

The karyotype of most birds has remained considerably stable during more than 100 million
years' evolution, except for some groups, such as parrots. The evolutionary processes and …

A stunning visual collection of the banded metaphase chromosomekaryotypes from some
850 species of mammals, the Atlas of MammalianChromosomes represents an unabridged …

The slow-evolving invertebrate amphioxus has an irreplaceable role in advancing our
understanding of the vertebrate origin and innovations. Here we resolve the nearly complete …