Chromoanagenesis is a driver of structural variationin the smallest photosynthetic eukaryote
Claire Bugnot, Tyler Alioto, Fernando Cruz Rodriguez, Jèssica Gómez‐Garrido, Marta Ortova Gut, Sheree Yau, Gwenaël Piganeau
The paper shows that resistance to a virus in Ostreococcus mediterraneus evolves rapidly through chromoplexy-driven structural variations on a single chromosome, without consistent SNPs or shared structural variants.
bioRxiv · Sep 17, 2025 · PreprintGenomics