Aug 2026
Ancestral karyotype reconstruction provides insights into stepwise chromosome evolution and bract coloration in the banana family.
The banana family (Musaceae) exhibits remarkable diversity in karyotype structure and bract coloration, yet the evolutionary dynamics of chromosome rearrangements and the regulatory basis underlying color diversification remain poorly understood. Here, we present a telomere-to-telomere (T2T), gap-free genome assembly o...
Ning Fu, Pengchuan Sun, Xin Liu et al.
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