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... Variant benchmarking is often performed by comparing a test callset to a gold standard set of variants. In repetitive regions of the genome, it may be difficult to establish what is the truth for a call, for example, when different alignment scoring metrics provide equally supported but different variant calls on the same data. Here, we provide an alternative approach, TT-Mars, that takes advantag ...
genome; genome assembly, etc ; Bacillariophyceae; Skeletonema costatum; data collection; phytoplankton; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Diatoms (Bacillariophyceae) are a major constituent of the phytoplankton and have a universally recognized ecological importance. Between 1,000 and 1,300 diatom genera have been described in the literature, but only 10 nuclear genomes have been published and made available to the public up to date. Skeletonema costatum is a cosmopolitan marine diatom, principally occurring in coastal regions, and ...
chloroplast genome; mitochondrial genome; nuclear genome, etc ; Bulbophyllum; Crassulacean acid metabolism; Oligocene epoch; chloroplasts; phylogeny; plant biology; Asia; Australia; South America; Show all 12 Subjects
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... BACKGROUND: Because chloroplast (cp) genome has more conserved structures than nuclear genome and mitochondrial genome, it is a useful tool in estimating the phylogenetic relationships of plants. With a series of researches for cp genomes, there have been comprehensive understandings about the cp genome features. The genus Bulbophyllum widely distributed in Asia, South America, Australia and other ...
genome; genome assembly, etc ; DNA; bioreactors; lifestyle; metagenomics; microbial communities; sludge; wastewater treatment; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Complete genomes can be recovered from metagenomes by assembling and binning DNA sequences into metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs). Yet, the presence of microdiversity can hamper the assembly and binning processes, possibly yielding chimeric, highly fragmented and incomplete genomes. Here, the metagenomes of four samples of aerobic granular sludge bioreactors containing Candidatus (Ca.) Accumulib ...
genome; genome assembly, etc ; Fusarium oxysporum; National Center for Biotechnology Information; genomics; microbiology; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Optical mapping approaches are widely preferred and applied in different branches of genomic studies because of their accuracy, low cost, and high efficiency. In the current study, a sequence orientation of the Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. melongenae (FOMG) genome that is deposited in GenBank National Center for Biotechnology Information under accession number MPIL00000000 was used as the reference g ...
... Every cell in our body accumulates mutations throughout life, and sometimes an unfortunate combination of mutations drives the initiation of cancer. A new study infers extraordinarily detailed timelines of pre-cancerous evolution by sequencing single-cell genomes in patients with blood malignancies—finding that key mutations can arrive decades before diagnosis. ...
... The analysis of microbiome data has several technical challenges. In particular, count matrices contain a large proportion of zeros, some of which are biological, whereas others are technical. Furthermore, the measurements suffer from unequal sequencing depth, overdispersion, and data redundancy. These nuisance factors introduce substantial noise. We propose an accurate and robust method, mbDenois ...
mitochondrial genome; nuclear genome, etc ; Phylloscopus examinandus; Russia; genetic variation; haplotypes; mitochondria; mitochondrial DNA; Show all 8 Subjects
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... The complete mitochondrial genome sequencing of three nesting warblers Phylloscopus examinandus (Stresemann, 1913) (Passeriformes, Phylloscopidae) from Sakhalin Island was carried out for the first time. The mitochondrial genome structure was typical of the genus Phylloscopus with two control regions: functional CRI and partial (pseudo-) CRII. The genetic divergence between Ph. examinandus and Ph. ...
genome; genome assembly, etc ; domestication; evolution; genetic variation; genomics; multiomics; phenotypic variation; plant improvement; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Pan-genomics can encompass most of the genetic diversity of a species or population and has proved to be a powerful tool for studying genomic evolution and the origin and domestication of species, and for providing information for plant improvement. Plant genomics has greatly progressed because of improvements in sequencing technologies and the rapid reduction of sequencing costs. Nevertheless, pa ...
genome; genome expansion, etc ; DNA; Formicidae; adenine; cytotypes; heterochromatin; insects; karyotyping; molecular biology; phylogeny; thymine; Show all 12 Subjects
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... Heterochromatin is an important genome constituent comprised by a high density of repetitive DNA sequences that mediate chromosome structure and function. The species Mycetophylax morschi currently harbours three cytotypes: 2n = 26, 2n = 28 and 2n = 30 chromosomes. However, Mycetophylax conformis and Mycetophylax simplex harbour 2n = 30 and 2n = 36 chromosomes, respectively. None of the cytotypes ...
genome; genome assembly, etc ; Delphinapterus leucas; birds; conspecificity; genetic distance; genetic variation; heterozygosity; homozygosity; mammals; Show all 10 Subjects
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... When a high‐quality genome assembly of a target species is unavailable, an option to avoid the costly de novo assembly process is a mapping‐based assembly. However, mapping shotgun data to a distant relative may lead to biased or erroneous evolutionary inference. Here, we used short‐read data from a mammal (beluga whale) and a bird species (rowi kiwi) to evaluate whether reference genome phylogene ...
genome; genome assembly, etc ; Stichopus; aquaculture; females; fledglings; males; polymerase chain reaction; sex determination; China; Show all 10 Subjects
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... Sex-specific markers are essential for understanding sex determination mechanism and developing sex detection techniques in aquatic animals. The tropical sea cucumber Stichopus monotuberculatus is a fledgling aquaculture species in southern China. In this study, a total of 399 candidate male-specific and 179 candidate female-specific sequences were obtained after genome assembly, read mapping, and ...
Hongyu Duan; Ashley W. Jones; Tim Hewitt; Amy Mackenzie; Yiheng Hu; Anna Sharp; David Lewis; Rohit Mago; Narayana M. Upadhyaya; John P. Rathjen; Eric A. Stone; Benjamin Schwessinger; Melania Figueroa; Peter N. Dodds; Sambasivam Periyannan; Jana Sperschneider
genome; genome assembly, etc ; Puccinia recondita; chromatin; diploidy; genomics; haploidy; haplotypes; heterozygosity; leaf rust; nanopores; Show all 11 Subjects
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... BACKGROUND: Most animals and plants have more than one set of chromosomes and package these haplotypes into a single nucleus within each cell. In contrast, many fungal species carry multiple haploid nuclei per cell. Rust fungi are such species with two nuclei (karyons) that contain a full set of haploid chromosomes each. The physical separation of haplotypes in dikaryons means that, unlike in dipl ...
... SMC protein complexes are molecular machines that provide structure to chromosomes. These complexes bridge DNA elements and by doing so build DNA loops in cis and hold together the sister chromatids in trans. We discuss how drastic conformational changes allow SMC complexes to build such intricate DNA structures. The tight regulation of these complexes controls fundamental chromosomal processes su ...
... Giant viruses have extravagantly large double-stranded (ds)DNA genomes that are packaged into exceedingly complex virions. In two recent papers, Liu et al. and Valencia-Sánchez, Abini-Agbomson et al. show that some giant viruses encode unique histone doublets, which form nucleosomes remarkably similar to those found across the eukaryotic domain of life. ...
... Recovering high-quality metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) from complex microbial ecosystems remains challenging. Recently, high-throughput chromosome conformation capture (Hi-C) has been applied to simultaneously study multiple genomes in natural microbial communities. We develop HiCBin, a novel open-source pipeline, to resolve high-quality MAGs utilizing Hi-C contact maps. HiCBin employs the Hi ...
M.-C. Birling; M. D. Fray; P. Kasparek; J. Kopkanova; M. Massimi; R. Matteoni; L. Montoliu; L. M. J. Nutter; M. Raspa; J. Rozman; E. J. Ryder; F. Scavizzi; V. Voikar; S. Wells; G. Pavlovic; L. Teboul
... The reproducibility of research using laboratory animals requires reliable management of their quality, in particular of their genetics, health and environment, all of which contribute to their phenotypes. The point at which these biological materials are transferred between researchers is particularly sensitive, as it may result in a loss of integrity of the animals and/or their documentation. He ...
genome; genome-wide association study, etc ; animal genetics; artificial selection; chickens; genotyping; missense mutation; phenotype; China; Show all 9 Subjects
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... Bird feathers are the product of interactions between natural and artificial selection. Feather‐related traits are important for chicken selection and breeding. Frizzle feather is characterized by the abnormally development of feathers in chickens. In the current study, frizzle feather characteristics were observed in a local breed called Xiushui Yellow Chicken in Jiangxi, China. To determine the ...
... Long terminal repeat retrotransposons (LTR‐RTs) are mobilized via an RNA intermediate using a ‘copy and paste’ mechanism, and account for the majority of repetitive DNA in plant genomes. As a side effect of mobilization, the formation of LTR‐RT‐derived extrachromosomal circular DNAs (eccDNAs) occurs. Thus, high‐throughput sequencing of eccDNA can be used to identify active LTR‐RTs in plant genomes ...
genome; genome assembly, etc ; Fusarium avenaceum; Fusarium head blight; RNA; corn; fungi; ice; ice nucleation; soil; Virginia; Show all 11 Subjects
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... Fusarium avenaceum is a filamentous fungus commonly associated with plants and soil. It is a causal agent of Fusarium head blight (FHB) on maize and small-grain cereals and blights on other plant species, and is one of the very few fungal species known to have ice nucleation activity (i.e., it catalyzes ice formation). Here, we report the draft genome of the ice-nucleation-active F. avenaceum stra ...