Sea anemone genomes reveal ancestral metazoan chromosomal macrosynteny
Bob Zimmermann, Juan D. Montenegro, Sofia M. C. Robb, Robin Fropf, Lukas Weilguny, Shuonan He, Shiyuan Chen, Jessica Lovegrove‐Walsh, Eric M. Hill, Cheng‐Yi Chen, Katerina Ragkousi, Daniela Praher, David Fredman, Darrin T. Schultz, Yehu Moran, , Ulrich Technau
The paper reports chromosome-level genome assemblies of two sea anemones and finds conserved chromosomal blocks across cnidarians and bilaterians, but loss of microsynteny in Hox and NK clusters.
Nature Communications · Dec 13, 2023Peer-reviewedGenomics