'Both genomes had been analysed before, but the fragmented assemblies had scaffold sizes comparable to the length of long reads prior to assembly. Our new assemblies illustrate how long-read technologies allow for a much better representation of species genomes. We are now able to conduct more accurate downstream assays based on more complete gene and transposable element predictions.'
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https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.06.561169v1

Revisiting genomes of non-model species with long reads yields new insights into their biology and evolution

High-quality genomes obtained using long-read data allow not only for a better understanding of heterozygosity levels, repeat content, and more accurate gene annotation, and prediction when compared to those obtained with short-read technologies, but…

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