Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

The 3D architecture of the pepper genome and its relationship to function and evolution

  • Yi Liao,
  • Juntao Wang,
  • Zhangsheng Zhu,
  • Yuanlong Liu,
  • Jinfeng Chen,
  • Yongfeng Zhou,
  • Feng Liu,
  • Jianjun Lei,
  • Brandon S. Gaut,
  • Bihao Cao,
  • J. J. Emerson,
  • Changming Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31112-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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The organization of chromatin into self-interacting domains is universal among eukaryotic genomes. Here, the authors report a reference-grade pepper genome assembly and use this reference to help describe the relationship among 3D chromatin conformation, chromatin function, and gene expression.