Evolutionary new centromeres in the snowy owl genome putatively seeded from a transposable element
Helle Tessand Baalsrud, Benedicte Garmann-Aarhus, Emily Louise Gilbert Enevoldsen…·Ole K. Tørresen
The paper presents a chromosome-level genome assembly for the snowy owl and identifies evolutionary new centromeres seeded by a transposable element, showing lineage-specific centromere evolution.