Cassava (Manihot esculenta) provides calories and nutrition for more than half a billion
people. It was domesticated by native Amazonian peoples through cultivation of the wild …

A central question in evolutionary biology is whether sponges or ctenophores (comb jellies)
are the sister group to all other animals. These alternative phylogenetic hypotheses imply …

Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is an important staple food crop in Africa and South
America; however, ubiquitous deleterious mutations may severely decrease its fitness. To …

Miscanthus is a perennial wild grass that is of global importance for paper production, roofing,
horticultural plantings, and an emerging highly productive temperate biomass crop. We …

Trifoliate orange (Poncirus trifoliata), a deciduous close relative of evergreen Citrus, has
important traits for citrus production, including tolerance/resistance to citrus greening disease (…

The nutrient-rich tubers of the greater yam, Dioscorea alata L., provide food and income
security for millions of people around the world. Despite its global importance, however, greater …

Genetic mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTL) for resistance to cassava brown streak disease
(CBSD), cassava mosaic disease (CMD), and cassava green mite (CGM) was performed …

Closely related muntjac deer show striking karyotype differences. Here we describe
chromosome-scale genome assemblies for Chinese and Indian muntjacs, Muntiacus reevesi (2n = …

Frogs are an ecologically diverse and phylogenetically ancient group of anuran amphibians
that include important vertebrate cell and developmental model systems, notably the genus …

In many groups, sex chromosomes change frequently but the drivers of their rapid evolution
are varied and often poorly characterized. With an aim of further understanding sex …