The Easter Egg Weevil (Pachyrhynchus) genome reveals synteny in Coleoptera across 200 million years of evolution
Matthew H. Van Dam, Analyn Cabras, James Henderson, Andrew J. Rominger, Cynthia Pérez Estrada, Arina D. Omer, Olga Dudchenko, Erez Lieberman Aiden, Athena Wai Lam
The paper analyzes synteny patterns across insect genomes, finding that synteny scales with clade age and that some beetle chromosomes maintain gene order over 200 million years.
PLoS Genetics · Aug 30, 2021Peer-reviewedGenomics