Nature Communications (Sep 2022)

High-resolution silkworm pan-genome provides genetic insights into artificial selection and ecological adaptation

  • Xiaoling Tong,
  • Min-Jin Han,
  • Kunpeng Lu,
  • Shuaishuai Tai,
  • Shubo Liang,
  • Yucheng Liu,
  • Hai Hu,
  • Jianghong Shen,
  • Anxing Long,
  • Chengyu Zhan,
  • Xin Ding,
  • Shuo Liu,
  • Qiang Gao,
  • Bili Zhang,
  • Linli Zhou,
  • Duan Tan,
  • Yajie Yuan,
  • Nangkuo Guo,
  • Yan-Hong Li,
  • Zhangyan Wu,
  • Lulu Liu,
  • Chunlin Li,
  • Yaru Lu,
  • Tingting Gai,
  • Yahui Zhang,
  • Renkui Yang,
  • Heying Qian,
  • Yanqun Liu,
  • Jiangwen Luo,
  • Lu Zheng,
  • Jinghou Lou,
  • Yunwu Peng,
  • Weidong Zuo,
  • Jiangbo Song,
  • Songzhen He,
  • Songyuan Wu,
  • Yunlong Zou,
  • Lei Zhou,
  • Lan Cheng,
  • Yuxia Tang,
  • Guotao Cheng,
  • Lianwei Yuan,
  • Weiming He,
  • Jiabao Xu,
  • Tao Fu,
  • Yang Xiao,
  • Ting Lei,
  • Anying Xu,
  • Ye Yin,
  • Jian Wang,
  • Antónia Monteiro,
  • Eric Westhof,
  • Cheng Lu,
  • Zhixi Tian,
  • Wen Wang,
  • Zhonghuai Xiang,
  • Fangyin Dai

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33366-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Tong et al. describe a super pangenome assembled from long-read sequences of 545 wild and domesticated silkworms. Naturally selected (diapause, aposemantic coloration) or artificially selected (silk yield and fineness) sets of genes are delineated.