Evidence of multiple genome duplication events in Mytilus evolution.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Molluscs remain one significantly under-represented taxa amongst available genomic resources, despite being the second-largest animal phylum and the recent advances in genomes sequencing technologies and genome assembly techniques. With the present work, we want to contribute to the growing efforts by filling this gap, presenting a new high-quality reference genome for Mytilus edulis and investigating the evolutionary history within the Mytilidae family, in relation to other species in the class Bivalvia.

Results

Here we present, for the first time, the discovery of multiple whole genome duplication events in the Mytilidae family and, more generally, in the class Bivalvia. In addition, the calculation of evolution rates for three species of the Mytilinae subfamily

SUBMITTER: Corrochano-Fraile A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9063065 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature