Genomic diversity of the African malaria vector .

s.s. is a formidable human malaria vector across sub-Saharan Africa.

MCHelper automatically curates transposable element libraries across eukaryotic species.

The number of species with high-quality genome sequences continues to increase, in part due to the scaling up of multiple large-scale biodiversity sequencing projects. While the need to annotate genic sequences in these genomes is widely acknowledged, the parallel need to annotate transposable element (TE) sequences that have been shown to alter genome architecture, rewire gene regulatory networks, and contribute to the evolution of host traits is becoming ever more evident. However, accurate genome-wide annotation of TE sequences is still technically challenging.

The Hypolimnas misippus Genome Supports a Common Origin of the W Chromosome in Lepidoptera.

Moths and butterflies (Lepidoptera) have a heterogametic sex chromosome system with females carrying ZW chromosomes and males ZZ. The lack of W chromosomes in early-diverging lepidopteran lineages has led to the suggestion of an ancestral Z0 system in this clade and a B chromosome origin of the W. This contrasts with the canonical model of W chromosome evolution in which the W would have originated from the same homologous autosomal pair as the Z chromosome.

The genome sequence of the Dracula fish, (Britz, Conway & Rüber, 2009).

We present a genome assembly from an individual (the Dracula fish; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Cypriniformes; Danionidae; Danioninae). The genome sequence is 665.21 megabases in span.