Crossroads of assembling a moss genome: navigating contaminants and horizontal gene transfer in the moss Physcomitrellopsis africana
Vidya S Vuruputoor, Andrew Starovoitov, Yuqing Cai, Yang Liu, Nasim Rahmatpour, Terry A J Hedderson, Nicholas Wilding, Jill Wegrzyn, Bernard Goffinet
The paper presents the first chromosome-scale genome of Physcomitrellopsis africana, identifies two horizontally transferred genes, and highlights dynamic HGT patterns in moss evolution.
G3 Genes Genomes Genetics · May 23, 2024Peer-reviewedGenomics