Comparative analysis using a chromosome-scale genome assembly for Funaria hygrometrica suggests greater collinearity in mosses than in seed plants.

ABSTRACT: Mosses, the largest lineage of seed-free plants, have smaller and less variable genome sizes than flowering plants. Nevertheless, whether this difference results from divergent genome dynamics is poorly known. Here, we use newly generated chromosome-scale genome assemblies for Funaria hygrometrica and comparative analysis with other moss and seed plant genomes to investigate moss genome dynamics. Although some aspects of moss genome dynamics are seed plant-like, such as the mechanism of genome size change and de novo gain/loss of genes, moss genomes retain higher synteny, and collinearity over evolutionary time than seed plant genomes. Furthermore, transposable elements and genes are more evenly distributed along chromosomes in mosses than in seed plants, a feature shared with other sequen

SUBMITTER: Kirbis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11871058 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature