Chromosome-length genome assemblies of six legume species provide insights into genome organization, evolution, and agronomic traits for crop improvement

V Garg, O Dudchenko, J Wang, AW Khan… - Journal of advanced …, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction Legume crops are an important source of protein and oil for human health and
in fixing atmospheric N 2 for soil enrichment. With an objective to accelerate much-needed …

Hemimetabolous insects elucidate the origin of sexual development via alternative splicing

J Wexler, EK Delaney, X Belles, C Schal… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Insects are the only known animals in which sexual differentiation is controlled by sex-
specific splicing. The doublesex transcription factor produces distinct male and female …

[PDF][PDF] Metagenomic sequencing reveals a lack of virus exchange between native and invasive freshwater fish across the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia

VA Costa, JCO Mifsud, D Gilligan, JE Williamson… - Virus …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Biological invasions are among the biggest threats to freshwater biodiversity. This is
increasingly relevant in the Murray–Darling Basin, Australia, particularly since the …

Complex transcriptional regulation and independent evolution of fungal-like traits in a relative of animals

A De Mendoza, H Suga, J Permanyer, M Irimia… - elife, 2015 - elifesciences.org
Cell-type specification through differential genome regulation is a hallmark of complex
multicellularity. However, it remains unclear how this process evolved during the transition …

Limited cross-species virus transmission in a spatially restricted coral reef fish community

VA Costa, DR Bellwood, JCO Mifsud… - Virus …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Great Barrier Reef (GBR)—the largest coral reef ecosystem in the world—
supports over 1,200 fish species with some of the highest population densities and …

Circumpolar diversification of the Ixodes uriae tick virome

JHO Pettersson, P Ellström, J Ling, I Nilsson… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Ticks (order: Ixodida) are a highly diverse and ecologically important group of ectoparasitic
blood-feeding organisms. One such species, the seabird tick (Ixodes uriae), is widely …

A hybrid de novo assembly of the sea pansy (Renilla muelleri) genome

JB Jiang, AM Quattrini, WR Francis, JF Ryan… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Background More than 3,000 species of octocorals (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) inhabit an
expansive range of environments, from shallow tropical seas to the deep-ocean floor. They …

Frequent origins of traumatic insemination involve convergent shifts in sperm and genital morphology

JN Brand, LJ Harmon, L Schärer - Evolution Letters, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Traumatic insemination is a mating behavior during which the (sperm) donor uses a
traumatic intromittent organ to inject an ejaculate through the epidermis of the (sperm) …

Transcriptome-guided annotation and functional classification of long non-coding RNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana

JA Corona-Gomez, EL Coss-Navarrete… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a prominent class of eukaryotic regulatory genes.
Despite the numerous available transcriptomic datasets, the annotation of plant lncRNAs …

Transcriptome sequencing and whole genome expression profiling of hexaploid sweetpotato under salt stress

MH Arisha, H Aboelnasr, MQ Ahmad, Y Liu, W Tang… - BMC genomics, 2020 - Springer
Background Purple-fleshed sweetpotato (PFSP) is one of the most important crops in the
word which helps to bridge the food gap and contribute to solve the malnutrition problem …