Harnessing genomics to fast-track genetic improvement in aquaculture

RD Houston, TP Bean, DJ Macqueen… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Aquaculture is the fastest-growing farmed food sector and will soon become the primary
source of fish and shellfish for human diets. In contrast to crop and livestock production …

IQ-TREE 2: new models and efficient methods for phylogenetic inference in the genomic era

BQ Minh, HA Schmidt, O Chernomor… - Molecular biology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract IQ-TREE (http://www. iqtree. org, last accessed February 6, 2020) is a user-friendly
and widely used software package for phylogenetic inference using maximum likelihood …

Learning from co-expression networks: possibilities and challenges

EAR Serin, H Nijveen, HWM Hilhorst… - Frontiers in plant …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Plants are fascinating and complex organisms. A comprehensive understanding of the
organization, function and evolution of plant genes is essential to disentangle important …

A taxonomic note on the genus Lactobacillus: Description of 23 novel genera, emended description of the genus Lactobacillus Beijerinck 1901, and union of Lactobacillaceae …

J Zheng, S Wittouck, E Salvetti… - … of systematic and …, 2020 - microbiologyresearch.org
The genus Lactobacillus comprises 261 species (at March 2020) that are extremely diverse
at phenotypic, ecological and genotypic levels. This study evaluated the taxonomy of …

OrthoFinder: phylogenetic orthology inference for comparative genomics

DM Emms, S Kelly - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Here, we present a major advance of the OrthoFinder method. This extends OrthoFinder's
high accuracy orthogroup inference to provide phylogenetic inference of orthologs, rooted …

Shifting the limits in wheat research and breeding using a fully annotated reference genome

International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium … - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is the most widely cultivated crop on Earth,
contributing about a fifth of the total calories consumed by humans. Consequently, wheat …

Genome evolution and diversity of wild and cultivated potatoes

D Tang, Y Jia, J Zhang, H Li, L Cheng, P Wang, Z Bao… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the world's most important non-cereal food crop, and the
vast majority of commercially grown cultivars are highly heterozygous tetraploids. Advances …

Ancient gene linkages support ctenophores as sister to other animals

DT Schultz, SHD Haddock, JV Bredeson, RE Green… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
A central question in evolutionary biology is whether sponges or ctenophores (comb jellies)
are the sister group to all other animals. These alternative phylogenetic hypotheses imply …

One thousand plant transcriptomes and the phylogenomics of green plants

Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Green plants (Viridiplantae) include around 450,000–500,000 species, of great diversity and
have important roles in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Here, as part of the One …

The barley pan-genome reveals the hidden legacy of mutation breeding

M Jayakodi, S Padmarasu, G Haberer, VS Bonthala… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Genetic diversity is key to crop improvement. Owing to pervasive genomic structural
variation, a single reference genome assembly cannot capture the full complement of …