[HTML][HTML] Advances in optical mapping for genomic research

Y Yuan, CYL Chung, TF Chan - Computational and Structural …, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent advances in optical mapping have allowed the construction of improved genome
assemblies with greater contiguity. Optical mapping also enables genome comparison and …

The state of squamate genomics: past, present, and future of genome research in the most speciose terrestrial vertebrate order

SM Gable, JM Mendez, NA Bushroe, A Wilson… - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Squamates include more than 11,000 extant species of lizards, snakes, and
amphisbaenians, and display a dazzling diversity of phenotypes across their over 200 …

Large-scale snake genome analyses provide insights into vertebrate development

C Peng, DD Wu, JL Ren, ZL Peng, Z Ma, W Wu, Y Lv… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Snakes are a remarkable squamate lineage with unique morphological adaptations,
especially those related to the evolution of vertebrate skeletons, organs, and sensory …

The evolutionary network of whiptail lizards reveals predictable outcomes of hybridization

AJ Barley, A Nieto-Montes de Oca… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Hybridization between diverging lineages is associated with the generation and loss of
species diversity, introgression, adaptation, and changes in reproductive mode, but it is …

Convergent and lineage-specific genomic differences in limb regulatory elements in limbless reptile lineages

JG Roscito, K Sameith, BM Kirilenko, N Hecker… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Loss of limbs evolved many times in squamate reptiles. Here we investigated the genomic
basis of convergent limb loss in reptiles. We sequenced the genomes of a closely related …

Chromosome-scale genome assembly of the brown anole (Anolis sagrei), an emerging model species

AJ Geneva, S Park, DG Bock, PLH de Mello… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Rapid technological improvements are democratizing access to high quality, chromosome-
scale genome assemblies. No longer the domain of only the most highly studied model …

A chromosome-level genome assembly of an alpine plant Crucihimalaya lasiocarpa provides insights into high-altitude adaptation

L Feng, H Lin, M Kang, Y Ren, X Yu, Z Xu… - DNA …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
It remains largely unknown how plants adapt to high-altitude habitats. Crucihimalaya
(Brassicaceae) is an alpine genus occurring in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau characterized by …

De Novo Genome Assembly of Populus simonii Further Supports That Populus simonii and Populus trichocarpa Belong to Different Sections

H Wu, D Yao, Y Chen, W Yang, W Zhao… - G3: Genes …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Populus simonii is an important tree in the genus Populus, widely distributed in the Northern
Hemisphere and having a long cultivation history. Although this species has ecologically …

Optimizing phylogenomics with rapidly evolving long exons: comparison with anchored hybrid enrichment and ultraconserved elements

BR Karin, T Gamble, TR Jackman - Molecular Biology and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Marker selection has emerged as an important component of phylogenomic study design
due to rising concerns of the effects of gene tree estimation error, model misspecification …

RepeatFiller newly identifies megabases of aligning repetitive sequences and improves annotations of conserved non-exonic elements

E Osipova, N Hecker, M Hiller - Gigascience, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background Transposons and other repetitive sequences make up a large part of complex
genomes. Repetitive sequences can be co-opted into a variety of functions and thus provide …