The evolutionary origins of pesticide resistance

NJ Hawkins, C Bass, A Dixon, P Neve - Biological Reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Durable crop protection is an essential component of current and future food security.
However, the effectiveness of pesticides is threatened by the evolution of resistant …

Whole‐genome sequencing approaches for conservation biology: Advantages, limitations and practical recommendations

AP Fuentes‐Pardo, DE Ruzzante - Molecular ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Whole‐genome resequencing (WGR) is a powerful method for addressing fundamental
evolutionary biology questions that have not been fully resolved using traditional methods …

BUSCO: assessing genomic data quality and beyond

M Manni, MR Berkeley, M Seppey… - Current …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Evaluation of the quality of genomic “data products” such as genome assemblies or
gene sets is of critical importance in order to recognize possible issues and correct them …

Sequence locally, think globally: the Darwin Tree of Life Project

Darwin Tree of Life Project Consortium - Proceedings of the National …, 2022 - pnas.org
The goals of the Earth Biogenome Project—to sequence the genomes of all eukaryotic life
on earth—are as daunting as they are ambitious. The Darwin Tree of Life Project was …

Dense sampling of bird diversity increases power of comparative genomics

S Feng, J Stiller, Y Deng, J Armstrong, QI Fang… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Whole-genome sequencing projects are increasingly populating the tree of life and
characterizing biodiversity,,–. Sparse taxon sampling has previously been proposed to …

HiFiAdapterFilt, a memory efficient read processing pipeline, prevents occurrence of adapter sequence in PacBio HiFi reads and their negative impacts on genome …

SB Sim, RL Corpuz, TJ Simmonds, SM Geib - BMC genomics, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Pacific Biosciences HiFi read technology is currently the industry
standard for high accuracy long-read sequencing that has been widely adopted by large …

OrthoDB v10: sampling the diversity of animal, plant, fungal, protist, bacterial and viral genomes for evolutionary and functional annotations of orthologs

EV Kriventseva, D Kuznetsov, F Tegenfeldt… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract OrthoDB (https://www. orthodb. org) provides evolutionary and functional
annotations of orthologs. This update features a major scaling up of the resource coverage …

Earth BioGenome Project: Sequencing life for the future of life

HA Lewin, GE Robinson, WJ Kress, WJ Baker… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - pnas.org
Increasing our understanding of Earth's biodiversity and responsibly stewarding its
resources are among the most crucial scientific and social challenges of the new …

Toward a genome sequence for every animal: where are we now?

S Hotaling, JL Kelley, PB Frandsen - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021 - pnas.org
In less than 25 y, the field of animal genome science has transformed from a discipline
seeking its first glimpses into genome sequences across the Tree of Life to a global …

Evolutionary history of the Hymenoptera

RS Peters, L Krogmann, C Mayer, A Donath, S Gunkel… - Current biology, 2017 - cell.com
Summary Hymenoptera (sawflies, wasps, ants, and bees) are one of four mega-diverse
insect orders, comprising more than 153,000 described and possibly up to one million …