Long-read HiFi Sequencing Correctly Assembles Repetitive heavy fibroin Silk Genes in New Moth and Caddisfly Genomes
Akito Y. Kawahara, Caroline Storer, Amanda Markee, Jacqueline Heckenhauer, Ashlyn Powell, David M. Plotkin, Scott Hotaling, Timothy P. Cleland, Rebecca B. Dikow, Torsten Dikow, Ryoichi B. Kuranishi, Rebeccah L. Messcher, Steffen U. Pauls, Russell J. Stewart, Koji Tojo, Paul B. Frandsen
This study uses HiFi long-read sequencing to assemble repetitive heavy fibroin genes in moth and caddisfly genomes, demonstrating its effectiveness for such challenging regions.
Gigabyte · Jun 30, 2022Peer-reviewedGenomics