Improved contiguity of the threespine stickleback genome using long-read sequencing

An improved assembly of the loblolly pine mega-genome using long-read single-molecule sequencing

The 22-gigabase genome of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) is one of the largest ever sequenced. The draft assembly published in 2014 was built entirely from short Illumina reads, with lengths ranging from 100 to 250 base pairs (bp). The assembly was quite fragmented, containing over 11 million contigs whose weighted average (N50) size was 8206 bp. To improve this result, we generated approximately ...

The Evolutionary Biology of the Threespine Stickleback

Because the study of variability lies at the heart of evolutionary biology, species that exhibit considerable variation across their geographic range are of special interest to comparative biologists interested in understanding evolutionary patterns and processes at the species level. Few vertebrates match threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus) in the extent of geographic variation in...

Erratum to: An improved assembly of the loblolly pine mega-genome using long-read single-molecule sequencing

The 22-gigabase genome of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) is one of the largest ever sequenced. The draft assembly published in 2014 was built entirely from short Illumina reads, with lengths ranging from 100 to 250 base pairs (bp). The assembly was quite fragmented, containing over 11 million contigs whose weighted average (N50) size was 8206 bp. To improve this result, we generated approximately ...

Sequencing the genome of threespine sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

Whole-genome sequencing reveals small genomic regions of introgression in an introduced crater lake population of threespine stickleback.

Invasive species pose a major threat to biological diversity. Although introduced populations often experience population bottlenecks, some invasive species are thought to be originated from hybridization between multiple populations or species, which can contribute to the maintenance of high genetic diversity. Recent advances in genome sequencing enable us to trace the evolutionary history of ...