Biodiversity loss from disturbances caused by human activities means that species are
disappearing at an ever increasing rate. The high number of species that have yet to be …

A transcriptome constructed from short-read RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) is an easily
attainable proxy catalog of protein-coding genes when genome assembly is unnecessary …

Advances in sequencing technologies and bioinformatics tools have dramatically increased
the recovery rate of microbial genomes from metagenomic data. Assessing the quality of …

Conifers dominate the world's forest ecosystems and are the most widely planted tree
species. Their giant and complex genomes present great challenges for assembling a …

The task of eukaryotic genome annotation remains challenging. Only a few genomes could
serve as standards of annotation achieved through a tremendous investment of human …

Genome sequence assemblies provide the basis for our understanding of biology.
Generating error-free assemblies is therefore the ultimate, but sadly still unachieved goal of …

Cultivated rice varieties are all diploid, and polyploidization of rice has long been desired
because of its advantages in genome buffering, vigorousness, and environmental …

Forest soil microbiomes have crucial roles in carbon storage, biogeochemical cycling and
rhizosphere processes. Wildfire season length, and the frequency and size of severe fires …

In the context of climate change, drought is one of the most limiting factors that influence
crop production. Maize, as a major crop, is highly vulnerable to water deficit, which causes …

Genome-scale sequence data have invigorated the study of hybridization and introgression,
particularly in animals. However, outside of a few notable cases, we lack systematic tests for …