De novo assembly of 20 chickens reveals the undetectable phenomenon for thousands of core genes on sub-telomeric regions
Ming Li, Congjiao Sun, Naiyi Xu, Peipei Bian, Xiaomeng Tian, Xihong Wang, Yuzhe Wang, Xinzheng Jia, Rasmus Heller, Mingshan Wang, Fei Wang, Xuelei Dai, Rongsong Luo, Yingwei Guo, Xiangnan Wang, , Ning Yang
This study constructs a chicken pan-genome from 20 de novo assemblies, identifying novel genes predominantly in sub-telomeric regions that are undetectable by DNA sequencing but present in transcriptomes.
bioRxiv · Nov 5, 2021 · PreprintGenomics