Novel assembly strategy cracks open the mysteries of walnut genome evolution.

Published in: Horticulture research (2019)

High quality chromosome-scale assemblies from an interspecific hybrid between walnut and a wild relative reveal the persistence of asymmetric fractionation between the sub-genomes and suggest a late-Miocene origin for the genus Juglans.

Keyphrases

genome wide
minimally invasive
copy number
single cell
dna methylation
gene expression
genetic diversity