A field guide to eukaryotic transposable elements

JN Wells, C Feschotte - Annual review of genetics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Transposable elements (TEs) are mobile DNA sequences that propagate within genomes.
Through diverse invasion strategies, TEs have come to occupy a substantial fraction of …

[HTML][HTML] Genome size diversity and its impact on the evolution of land plants

J Pellicer, O Hidalgo, S Dodsworth, IJ Leitch - Genes, 2018 - mdpi.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Decoding the massive genome of loblolly pine using haploid DNA and novel assembly strategies

DB Neale, JL Wegrzyn, KA Stevens, AV Zimin, D Puiu… - Genome biology, 2014 - Springer
Background The size and complexity of conifer genomes has, until now, prevented full
genome sequencing and assembly. The large research community and economic …

Sequencing and assembly of the 22-Gb loblolly pine genome

A Zimin, KA Stevens, MW Crepeau, A Holtz-Morris… - Genetics, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Conifers are the predominant gymnosperm. The size and complexity of their genomes has
presented formidable technical challenges for whole-genome shotgun sequencing and …

Draft genome of the living fossil Ginkgo biloba

R Guan, Y Zhao, HE Zhang, G Fan, X Liu, W Zhou… - …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background Ginkgo biloba L.(Ginkgoaceae) is one of the most distinctive plants. It
possesses a suite of fascinating characteristics including a large genome, outstanding …

[HTML][HTML] Introducing BASE: the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments soil microbial diversity database

A Bissett, A Fitzgerald, T Meintjes, PM Mele, F Reith… - GigaScience, 2016 - Springer
Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …

Sequence of the sugar pine megagenome

KA Stevens, JL Wegrzyn, A Zimin, D Puiu, M Crepeau… - Genetics, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Until very recently, complete characterization of the megagenomes of conifers has remained
elusive. The diploid genome of sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana Dougl.) has a highly …

Improved white spruce (Picea glauca) genome assemblies and annotation of large gene families of conifer terpenoid and phenolic defense metabolism

RL Warren, CI Keeling, MMS Yuen… - The Plant …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
White spruce (Picea glauca), a gymnosperm tree, has been established as one of the
models for conifer genomics. We describe the draft genome assemblies of two white spruce …

[HTML][HTML] Siberian larch (Larix sibirica Ledeb.) mitochondrial genome assembled using both short and long nucleotide sequence reads is currently the largest known …

YA Putintseva, EI Bondar, EP Simonov, VV Sharov… - BMC genomics, 2020 - Springer
Background Plant mitochondrial genomes (mitogenomes) can be structurally complex while
their size can vary from~ 222 Kbp in Brassica napus to 11.3 Mbp in Silene conica. To date …

Unique Features of the Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda L.) Megagenome Revealed Through Sequence Annotation

JL Wegrzyn, JD Liechty, KA Stevens, LS Wu… - Genetics, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The largest genus in the conifer family Pinaceae is Pinus, with over 100 species. The size
and complexity of their genomes (∼ 20–40 Gb, 2 n= 24) have delayed the arrival of a well …