Yafei Mao, Claudia R Catacchio, LaDeana W Hillier, David Porubsky, Ruiyang Li, Arvis Sulovari, Jason D Fernandes, Francesco Montinaro, David S Gordon, Jessica M Storer, Marina Haukness, Ian T Fiddes, Shwetha Canchi Murali, Philip C Dishuck, PingHsun Hsieh, William T Harvey, Peter A Audano, Ludovica Mercuri, Ilaria Piccolo, Francesca Antonacci, Katherine M Munson, Alexandra P Lewis, Carl Baker, Jason G Underwood, Kendra Hoekzema, Tzu-Hsueh Huang, Melanie Sorensen, Jerilyn A Walker, Jinna Hoffman, Françoise Thibaud-Nissen, Sofie R Salama, Andy W C Pang, Joyce Lee, Alex R Hastie, Benedict Paten, Mark A Batzer, Mark Diekhans, Mario Ventura, Evan E Eichler
The divergence of chimpanzee and bonobo provides one of the few examples of recent hominid speciation1,2 . Here we describe a fully annotated, high-quality bonobo genome assembly, which was constructed without guidance from reference genomes by applying a multiplatform genomics approach. We generate a bonobo genome assembly in which more than 98% of genes are completely annotated and 99% of the gaps are closed, including the resolution of about half of the segmental duplications and almost all of the full-length mobile elements...
June 2021: Nature