Long terminal repeat retrotransposons (LTR retrotransposons) are the most abundant group
of mobile genetic elements in eukaryotic genomes and are essential in organizing genomic …

Background The genus Allium (Family: Amaryllidaceae) is an economically important group
of crops cultivated worldwide for their use as a vegetable and spices. Alliums are also well …

Allium crop breeding remains severely hindered due to the lack of high-quality reference
genomes. Here we report high-quality chromosome-level genome assemblies for three key …

Knowledge of the fascinating world of DNA repeats is continuously being enriched by newly
identified elements and their hypothetical or well-established biological relevance. Genomic …

Tandem repeats are often associated with important chromosomal landmarks, such as
centromeres, telomeres, subtelomeric, and other heterochromatic regions, and can be good …

Species of the genus Allium are well known for their large genomes. Allium cepa is of great
economic significance. Among vegetables, it ranks second after tomato in terms of the global …

This article describes a novel method to identify as yet undiscovered telomere sequences,
which combines next generation sequencing (NGS) with BAL31 digestion of high molecular …

The centromere is a unique part of the chromosome combining a conserved function with an
extreme variability in its DNA sequence. Most of our knowledge about the functional …

Sireviruses are genera of copia LTR retrotransposons with a unique genome structure
among retrotransposons. Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is an economically important plant. In …

Background Rosaceae is a family containing many economically important fruit and
ornamental species. Although fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH)-based physical …