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Major Improvements to the Heliconius melpomene Genome Assembly Used to Confirm 10 Chromosome Fusion Events in 6 Million Years of Butterfly Evolution.
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) - 15 Jan 2016
Davey John W, Chouteau Mathieu, Barker Sarah L, Maroja Luana, Baxter Simon W, Simpson Fraser, Merrill Richard M, Joron Mathieu, Mallet James, Dasmahapatra Kanchon K, Jiggins Chris D
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The Heliconius butterflies are a widely studied adaptive radiation of 46 species spread across Central and South America, several of which are known to hybridize in the wild. Here, we present a substantially improved assembly of the Heliconius melpomene genome, developed using novel methods that should be applicable to improving other genome assemblies produced using short read sequencing. First, we...
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