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Bassiana Genome Assembly Announced
Posted in Genomics on Jun 05, 2025
Today (5-May-2025) we are very pleased to announce the formal publication in print of our latest genome assembly, this time for the Alpine form of the eastern three-lined skink *Bassiana duperreyi*.
Pogona genome PviZW2.1
Posted in Genomics on May 02, 2025
A new telomere to telomere assembly for the Central Bearded Dragon Pogona vitticeps.
Microchromosomes central players in vertebrate evolution
Posted in Genomics on Oct 31, 2021
Unlike mammals, most birds and reptiles (birds are reptiles after all) have a series of very small microchromosomes in addition to larger macrochromosomes. In a paper that appeared this week in PNAS, we show remarkable conservatism in the homology among microchromosomes dating back to Amphioxus. This work shows how we are all the product of our history, and not just recent evolutionary history, but with a signature in our genome organization that goes back to the pre-vertebrate days of an Amphioxus-like ancestor.
