INTRODUCTION Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is the most widely cultivated crop on Earth,
contributing about a fifth of the total calories consumed by humans. Consequently, wheat …

Tetraodon nigroviridis is a freshwater puffer fish with the smallest known vertebrate genome.
Here, we report a draft genome sequence with long-range linkage and substantial …

Oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) was formed ~7500 years ago by hybridization between B.
rapa and B. oleracea, followed by chromosome doubling, a process known as allopolyploidy…

Marine plankton support global biological and geochemical processes. Surveys of their
biodiversity have hitherto been geographically restricted and have not accounted for the full …

Plant-parasitic nematodes are major agricultural pests worldwide and novel approaches to
control them are sorely needed. We report the draft genome sequence of the root-knot …

The duplication of entire genomes has long been recognized as having great potential for
evolutionary novelties, but the mechanisms underlying their resolution through gene loss are …

Bananas (Musa spp.), including dessert and cooking types, are giant perennial monocotyledonous
herbs of the order Zingiberales, a sister group to the well-studied Poales, which …

Brown algae (Phaeophyceae) are complex photosynthetic organisms with a very different
evolutionary history to green plants, to which they are only distantly related 1 . These …

Vertebrate evolution has been shaped by several rounds of whole-genome duplications (WGDs)
that are often suggested to be associated with adaptive radiations and evolutionary …

We sequenced and assembled the draft genome of Theobroma cacao, an economically
important tropical-fruit tree crop that is the source of chocolate. This assembly corresponds to 76…