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    Low-input PacBio sequencing generates high-quality individual fly genomes and characterizes mutational processes

    Long-read sequencing, exemplified by PacBio, revolutionizes genomics, overcoming challenges like repetitive sequences. However, the high DNA requirement ( > 1 µg) is prohibitive for small organisms. We develop...

    Hangxing Jia, Shengjun Tan, Yingao Cai, Yanyan Guo, Jieyu Shen in Nature Communications (2024)

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    DNA transposons mediate duplications via transposition-independent and -dependent mechanisms in metazoans

    Despite long being considered as “junk”, transposable elements (TEs) are now accepted as catalysts of evolution. One example is Mutator-like elements (MULEs, one type of terminal inverted repeat DNA TEs, or TIR T...

    Shengjun Tan, Hui**g Ma, **bo Wang, Man Wang, Mengxia Wang in Nature Communications (2021)