Shelise Y. Brooks

The paper presents telomere-to-telomere genome assemblies of a Thoroughbred horse and donkey derived from a mule, revealing insights into equid centromere evolution and plasticity.

The paper presents a new zebrafish genome assembly with increased sequence coverage and improved annotation, along with a pangenome resource for variant analysis.

This study assembles human Robertsonian chromosomes, identifies a common breakpoint and centromere epigenetic changes, and explores structural features enabling their formation.

The paper uses direct RNA nanopore sequencing to identify RNA modification changes in human pancreatic beta-cells after glucose stimulation, finding 1,697 differentially modified sites linked to type 2 diabetes genes.

The paper presents haplotype-resolved genomes of six ape species with high accuracy and provides comparative analyses to study evolutionary diversity and gene family evolution.

The paper produces gapless assemblies of ape sex chromosomes for five great apes and a lesser ape, revealing divergence in Y chromosomes and evolutionary dynamics.

The paper presents a genome catalog of the early-life human skin microbiome, expanding diversity and improving classification rates using metagenomic data from infants and their mothers.

A gapless 3.055 billion bp human genome from HiFi and ultra-long nanopore reads resolves all centromeric arrays and acrocentric p-arms, adding 182 Mbp of new sequence.

The paper presents a comprehensive analysis of fully assembled human centromeres, revealing their architecture, variation, and evolutionary dynamics at high resolution.

The paper presents a gapless, telomere-to-telomere assembly of the human X chromosome using ultra-long-read nanopore sequencing and complementary technologies.

The paper identifies gemin3 as a regeneration-essential gene in zebrafish and shows smn1, gemin3, and gemin5 inhibit the ErbB pathway to promote cell proliferation during tissue regeneration.