A new duck genome reveals conserved and convergently evolved chromosome architectures of birds and mammals
Jing Li, Jilin Zhang, Jing Liu, Yang Zhou, Cheng Cai, Luohao Xu, Xuelei Dai, Shaohong Feng, Chunxue Guo, Jinpeng Rao, Kai Wei, Erich David Jarvis, Yu Jiang, Zhengkui Zhou, Guojie Zhang, Qi Zhou
This study presents a nearly complete duck genome assembly, revealing conserved and convergent chromosome architectures between birds and mammals, including TAD organization and W chromosome evolution.
GigaScience · Jan 1, 2021Peer-reviewedGenomics