The Ruminant Telomere-to-Telomere (RT2T) Consortium

TS Kalbfleisch, SD McKay, BM Murdoch, DL Adelson… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Telomere-to-telomere (T2T) assemblies reveal new insights into the structure and
function of the previously 'invisible'parts of the genome and allow comparative analyses of …

Phylogenomics and the genetic architecture of the placental mammal radiation

WJ Murphy, NM Foley, KR Bredemeyer… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The genomes of placental mammals are being sequenced at an unprecedented rate.
Alignments of hundreds, and one day thousands, of genomes spanning the rich living and …

Single-haplotype comparative genomics provides insights into lineage-specific structural variation during cat evolution

KR Bredemeyer, LD Hillier, AJ Harris, GM Hughes… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The role of structurally dynamic genomic regions in speciation is poorly understood due to
challenges inherent in diploid genome assembly. Here we reconstructed the evolutionary …

Assembly of a pangenome for global cattle reveals missing sequences and novel structural variations, providing new insights into their diversity and evolutionary …

Y Zhou, L Yang, X Han, J Han, Y Hu, F Li… - Genome …, 2022 - genome.cshlp.org
A cattle pangenome representation was created based on the genome sequences of 898
cattle representing 57 breeds. The pangenome identified 83 Mb of sequence not found in …

Long read genome assemblies complemented by single cell RNA-sequencing reveal genetic and cellular mechanisms underlying the adaptive evolution of yak

X Gao, S Wang, YF Wang, S Li, SX Wu, RG Yan… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Wild yak (Bos mutus) and domestic yak (Bos grunniens) are adapted to high altitude
environment and have ecological, economic, and cultural significances on the Qinghai …

False gene and chromosome losses in genome assemblies caused by GC content variation and repeats

J Kim, C Lee, BJ Ko, DA Yoo, S Won, AM Phillippy… - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Many short-read genome assemblies have been found to be incomplete and
contain mis-assemblies. The Vertebrate Genomes Project has been producing new …

Novel functional sequences uncovered through a bovine multiassembly graph

D Crysnanto, AS Leonard, ZH Fang… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Many genomic analyses start by aligning sequencing reads to a linear reference genome.
However, linear reference genomes are imperfect, lacking millions of bases of unknown …

Structural variant-based pangenome construction has low sensitivity to variability of haplotype-resolved bovine assemblies

AS Leonard, D Crysnanto, ZH Fang, MP Heaton… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Advantages of pangenomes over linear reference assemblies for genome research have
recently been established. However, potential effects of sequence platform and assembly …

Graph construction method impacts variation representation and analyses in a bovine super-pangenome

AS Leonard, D Crysnanto, XM Mapel, M Bhati… - Genome Biology, 2023 - Springer
Background Several models and algorithms have been proposed to build pangenomes from
multiple input assemblies, but their impact on variant representation, and consequently …

The Bovine Pangenome Consortium: democratizing production and accessibility of genome assemblies for global cattle breeds and other bovine species

TPL Smith, DM Bickhart, D Boichard, AJ Chamberlain… - Genome biology, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Bovine Pangenome Consortium (BPC) is an international collaboration
dedicated to the assembly of cattle genomes to develop a more complete representation of …