A roadmap for understanding the evolutionary significance of structural genomic variation

C Mérot, RA Oomen, A Tigano… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2020 - cell.com
Structural genomic variants (SVs) are ubiquitous and play a major role in adaptation and
speciation. Yet, comparative and population genomics have focused predominantly on gene …

Meta‐analysis of chromosome‐scale crossover rate variation in eukaryotes and its significance to evolutionary genomics

Q Haenel, TG Laurentino, M Roesti… - Molecular ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the distribution of crossovers along chromosomes is crucial to evolutionary
genomics because the crossover rate determines how strongly a genome region is …

BUSCO applications from quality assessments to gene prediction and phylogenomics

RM Waterhouse, M Seppey, FA Simão… - Molecular biology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Genomics promises comprehensive surveying of genomes and metagenomes, but rapidly
changing technologies and expanding data volumes make evaluation of completeness a …

InsectBase 2.0: a comprehensive gene resource for insects

Y Mei, D Jing, S Tang, X Chen, H Chen… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Insects are the largest group of animals on the planet and have a huge impact on human life
by providing resources, transmitting diseases, and damaging agricultural crop production …

Genomic architecture and introgression shape a butterfly radiation

NB Edelman, PB Frandsen, M Miyagi, B Clavijo… - Science, 2019 - science.org
We used 20 de novo genome assemblies to probe the speciation history and architecture of
gene flow in rapidly radiating Heliconius butterflies. Our tests to distinguish incomplete …

Mutation load at a mimicry supergene sheds new light on the evolution of inversion polymorphisms

P Jay, M Chouteau, A Whibley, H Bastide… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Chromosomal inversions are ubiquitous in genomes and often coordinate complex
phenotypes, such as the covariation of behavior and morphology in many birds, fishes …

Recombination rate variation shapes barriers to introgression across butterfly genomes

SH Martin, JW Davey, C Salazar, CD Jiggins - PLoS biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Hybridisation and introgression can dramatically alter the relationships among groups of
species, leading to phylogenetic discordance across the genome and between populations …

The Juicebox Assembly Tools module facilitates de novo assembly of mammalian genomes with chromosome-length scaffolds for under $1000

O Dudchenko, MS Shamim, SS Batra, NC Durand… - BioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
Hi-C contact maps are valuable for genome assembly (;;). Recently, we developed Juicebox,
a system for the visual exploration of Hi-C data, and 3D-DNA, an automated pipeline for …

Exploring evolutionary relationships across the genome using topology weighting

SH Martin, SM Van Belleghem - Genetics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We introduce the concept of topology weighting, a method for quantifying relationships
between taxa that are not necessarily monophyletic, and visualizing how these relationships …

Complex modular architecture around a simple toolkit of wing pattern genes

SM Van Belleghem, P Rastas, A Papanicolaou… - Nature ecology & …, 2017 - nature.com
Identifying the genomic changes that control morphological variation and understanding
how they generate diversity is a major goal of evolutionary biology. In Heliconius butterflies …