Progress in genome sequencing now enables the large-scale generation of reference genomes.
Various international initiatives aim to generate reference genomes representing global …

The availability of public genomic resources can greatly assist biodiversity assessment,
conservation, and restoration efforts by providing evidence for scientifically informed …

The program phase is widely used for Bayesian inference of haplotypes from diploid
genotypes; however, manually creating phase input files from sequence alignments is an error‐…

Loss of sexual reproduction is considered an evolutionary dead end for metazoans, but
bdelloid rotifers challenge this view as they appear to have persisted asexually for millions of …

Background The duplication of genes can occur through various mechanisms and is thought
to make a major contribution to the evolutionary diversification of organisms. There is …

Describing biological diversity is a challenging endeavour, especially for the small, cryptic
animals that make up the meiofauna. The field of DNA taxonomy, ie, the use of DNA to …

High-throughput DNA sequencing technologies are fuelling an accelerating trend to
assemble de novo or resequence the genomes of numerous species as well as to complete …

Root-knot nematodes (genus Meloidogyne) exhibit a diversity of reproductive modes ranging
from obligatory sexual to fully asexual reproduction. Intriguingly, the most widespread and …

The protection, preservation and restoration of aquatic ecosystems and their functions are of
global importance. For European states it became legally binding mainly through the EU-…

10.7554/eLife.03318.001 Genomic analyses of microbial populations in their natural
environment remain limited by the difficulty to assemble full genomes of individual species. …