Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprint
Genome expansions and regulatory contact entanglement help preserve ancestral metazoan synteny
Yehor Tertyshnyk, Thea F. Rogers, Darrin T. Schultz…·Oleg Simakov
The paper investigates how genome expansion in Hydra vulgaris affects chromatin loops and regulatory interactions, finding that it preserves ancestral synteny through entangled long-range regulatory configurations.
DOI 10.64898/2026.04.14.717158