Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

The allotetraploid origin and asymmetrical genome evolution of the common carp Cyprinus carpio

  • Peng Xu,
  • Jian Xu,
  • Guangjian Liu,
  • Lin Chen,
  • Zhixiong Zhou,
  • Wenzhu Peng,
  • Yanliang Jiang,
  • Zixia Zhao,
  • Zhiying Jia,
  • Yonghua Sun,
  • Yidi Wu,
  • Baohua Chen,
  • Fei Pu,
  • Jianxin Feng,
  • Jing Luo,
  • Jing Chai,
  • Hanyuan Zhang,
  • Hui Wang,
  • Chuanju Dong,
  • Wenkai Jiang,
  • Xiaowen Sun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12644-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The common carp is derived from recent whole genome duplication and represents a model for polyploid genome evolution, rare in vertebrates. Here, the authors generate and analyse chromosome-level reference genomes for common carp, and describe subgenome gene expression changes.