How can genomics help or hinder wildlife conservation?

TL Schmidt, JA Thia, AA Hoffmann - Annual Review of Animal …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Genomic data are becoming increasingly affordable and easy to collect, and new tools for
their analysis are appearing rapidly. Conservation biologists are interested in using this …

Plant pangenomes for crop improvement, biodiversity and evolution

M Schreiber, M Jayakodi, N Stein… - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Plant genome sequences catalogue genes and the genetic elements that regulate their
expression. Such inventories further research aims as diverse as mapping the molecular …

Scalable, accessible and reproducible reference genome assembly and evaluation in Galaxy

D Larivière, L Abueg, N Brajuka, C Gallardo-Alba… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The Earth BioGenome Project aims to produce reference genomes for all~ 1.8 million known
eukaryotic species over the next decade 1–4. Achieving this goal will require the current …

The genome of the rayed Mediterranean limpet Patella caerulea (Linnaeus, 1758)

G Halstead-Nussloch, SG Signorini… - Genome Biology and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Patella caerulea (Linnaeus, 1758) is a mollusc limpet species of the class
Gastropoda. Endemic to the Mediterranean Sea, it is considered a keystone species due to …

AI-informed conservation genomics

C van Oosterhout - Heredity, 2024 - nature.com
Genomic data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) models will start to play an increasingly
important role in conservation biology. In a recent study, Wilder et al.(2023) analysed …

Genomic data and ecological niche modeling reveal an unusually slow rate of molecular evolution in the Cretaceous Eupteleaceae

KL Xiang, SD Wu, L Lian, WC He, D Peng… - Science China Life …, 2024 - Springer
Living fossils are evidence of long-term sustained ecological success. However, whether
living fossils have little molecular changes remains poorly known, particularly in plants …

Hound: a novel tool for automated mapping of genotype to phenotype in bacterial genomes assembled de novo

C Reding, N Satapoomin… - Briefings in …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Increasing evidence suggests that microbial species have a strong within species genetic
heterogeneity. This can be problematic for the analysis of prokaryote genomes, which …

Genomic tools in biological invasions: current state and future frontiers

A McGaughran, MK Dhami, E Parvizi… - Genome biology and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Human activities are accelerating rates of biological invasions and climate-driven range
expansions globally, yet we understand little of how genomic processes facilitate the …

Reference genome choice and filtering thresholds jointly influence phylogenomic analyses

JA Rick, CD Brock, AL Lewanski… - Systematic …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Molecular phylogenies are a cornerstone of modern comparative biology and are commonly
employed to investigate a range of biological phenomena, such as diversification rates …

Nucleotide-level distance metrics to quantify alternative splicing implemented in TranD

A Nanni, J Titus-McQuillan, KS Bankole… - Nucleic Acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Advances in affordable transcriptome sequencing combined with better exon and gene
prediction has motivated many to compare transcription across the tree of life. We develop a …