Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile DNA sequences that propagate within genomes.
Through diverse invasion strategies, TEs have come to occupy a substantial fraction of …

Genome size is a biodiversity trait that shows staggering diversity across eukaryotes, varying
over 64,000-fold. Of all major taxonomic groups, land plants stand out due to their …

Gymnosperms are a unique lineage of plants that currently lack a high-quality reference
genome due to their large genome size and high repetitive sequence content. Here, we …

Aegilops tauschii is the diploid progenitor of the D genome of hexaploid wheat (Triticum
aestivum, genomes AABBDD) and an important genetic resource for wheat,,. The large size …

Polyploidization has provided much genetic variation for plant adaptive evolution, but the
mechanisms by which the molecular evolution of polyploid genomes establishes genetic …

Genome size in mammals and birds shows remarkably little interspecific variation compared
with other taxa. However, genome sequencing has revealed that many mammal and bird …

While prokaryotic pan-genomes have been shown to contain many more genes than any
individual organism, the prevalence and functional significance of differentially present …

Tea is the world's oldest and most popular caffeine-containing beverage with immense
economic, medicinal, and cultural importance. Here, we present the first high-quality …

Conifers have dominated forests for more than 200 million years and are of huge ecological
and economic importance. Here we present the draft assembly of the 20-gigabase genome …

Most land plants are now known to be ancient polyploids that have rediploidized.
Diploidization involves many changes in genome organization that ultimately restore …