Marlys L Houck, Klaus-Peter Koepfli, Taylor Hains, Ruqayya Khan, Suellen J Charter, Julie A Fronczek, Ann C Misuraca, Sergei Kliver, Polina L Perelman, Violetta Beklemisheva, Alexander Graphodatsky, Shu-Jin Luo, Stephen J O'Brien, Norman T-L Lim, Jason S C Chin, Vanessa Guerra, Gaik Tamazian, Arina Omer, David Weisz, Kenneth Kaemmerer, Ginger Sturgeon, Joseph Gaspard, Alicia Hahn, Mark McDonough, Isabel Garcia-Treviño, Jordan Gentry, Rob L Coke, Jan E Janecka, Ryan J Harrigan, Jen Tinsman, Thomas B Smith, Erez Lieberman Aiden, Olga Dudchenko
We report the first chromosome-length genome assemblies for three species in the mammalian order Pholidota: the white-bellied, Chinese, and Sunda pangolins. Surprisingly, we observe extraordinary karyotypic plasticity within this order and, in female white-bellied pangolins, the largest number of chromosomes reported in a Laurasiatherian mammal: 2n = 114. We perform the first karyotype analysis of an African pangolin and report a Y-autosome fusion in white-bellied pangolins, resulting in 2n = 113 for males...
April 12, 2023: Chromosome Research