Ciana Xu

Fragmented landscapes of mobile transposable element families bolster the diversity of large-effect alleles in Arabidopsis

Transposable elements (TEs) are powerful endogenous mutagens, but our understanding of the “mobilome” - the set of mobile TEs at the species level - has largely been shaped by the study of a single reference genome. To overcome this reference-centric view, we produced long-read genome assemblies for 91 Arabidopsis thal...