From molecules to populations: appreciating and estimating recombination rate variation

JV Peñalba, JBW Wolf - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Recombination is a central biological process with implications for many areas in the life
sciences. Yet we are only beginning to appreciate variation in the recombination rate along …

Research advances in the genomics and applications for molecular breeding of aquaculture animals

X You, X Shan, Q Shi - Aquaculture, 2020 - Elsevier
High-throughput sequencing technologies have been extensively applied to genetics and
breeding in the aquaculture industry. To date, many aquaculture animal genomes have …

The Atlantic salmon genome provides insights into rediploidization

S Lien, BF Koop, SR Sandve, JR Miller, MP Kent… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
The whole-genome duplication 80 million years ago of the common ancestor of salmonids
(salmonid-specific fourth vertebrate whole-genome duplication, Ss4R) provides unique …

Lep-MAP3: robust linkage map** even for low-coverage whole genome sequencing data

P Rastas - Bioinformatics, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Accurate and dense linkage maps are useful in family-based linkage and
association studies, quantitative trait locus map**, analysis of genome synteny and other …

Sex-dependent dominance maintains migration supergene in rainbow trout

DE Pearse, NJ Barson, T Nome, G Gao… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Males and females often differ in their fitness optima for shared traits that have a shared
genetic basis, leading to sexual conflict. Morphologically differentiated sex chromosomes …

R package ASMap: efficient genetic linkage map construction and diagnosis

J Taylor, D Butler - arxiv preprint arxiv:1705.06916, 2017 - arxiv.org
Although various forms of linkage map construction software are widely available, there is a
distinct lack of packages for use in the R statistical computing environment. This article …

Construction and analysis of high-density linkage map using high-throughput sequencing data

D Liu, C Ma, W Hong, L Huang, M Liu, H Liu, H Zeng… - Plos one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Linkage maps enable the study of important biological questions. The construction of high-
density linkage maps appears more feasible since the advent of next-generation …

Complex modular architecture around a simple toolkit of wing pattern genes

SM Van Belleghem, P Rastas, A Papanicolaou… - Nature ecology & …, 2017 - nature.com
Identifying the genomic changes that control morphological variation and understanding
how they generate diversity is a major goal of evolutionary biology. In Heliconius butterflies …

The Glanville fritillary genome retains an ancient karyotype and reveals selective chromosomal fusions in Lepidoptera

V Ahola, R Lehtonen, P Somervuo, L Salmela… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Previous studies have reported that chromosome synteny in Lepidoptera has been well
conserved, yet the number of haploid chromosomes varies widely from 5 to 223. Here we …

Using linkage maps to correct and scaffold de novo genome assemblies: methods, challenges, and computational tools

JL Fierst - Frontiers in genetics, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Modern high-throughput DNA sequencing has made it possible to inexpensively produce
genome sequences, but in practice many of these draft genomes are fragmented and …