A chromosome-level genome of Antechinus flavipes provides a reference for an Australasian marsupial genus with suicidal reproduction
Ran Tian1,2,†, Kai Han3,†,Yuepan Geng1, Chen Yang1, Chengcheng Shi3, Patrick B. Thomas4,5,6, Coral Pearce7, Kate Moffatt7, Siming Ma8, Shixia Xu2, Guang Yang2, Xuming Zhou9, Vadim N. Gladyshev10, Xin Liu3, Diana O. Fisher11, Lisa K. Chopin4,5, Natália O. Leiner12, Andrew M. Baker7,13, Guangyi Fan3,14,15, Inge Seim1,4,5,7
1 Integrative Biology Laboratory, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210023, China
2 Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210046, China
3 BGI-Qingdao, BGI-Shenzhen, Qingdao, Shandong, 266555, China
4 Ghrelin Research Group, Translational Research Institute-Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, 4102, Australia
5 Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre-Queensland, Translational Research Institute – Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, 4102, Australia
6 Queensland Bladder Cancer Initiative, Translational Research Institute-Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia
7 School of Biology and Environmental Science, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia
8 Genome Institute of Singapore, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, 138672, Singapore
9 Key Laboratory of Animal Ecology and Conservation Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China
10 Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA
11 School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia
12 Laboratório de Ecologia de Mamíferos, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG, 38400-902, Brazil
13 Natural Environments Program, Queensland Museum, South Brisbane, QLD, 4101, Australia
14 State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, Macau, China
15 State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518083, China
These authors contributed equally to this work
Correspondence: Guangyi Fan, BGI-Qingdao, BGI-Shenzhen, Qingdao, Shandong, 266555, China. E-mail: fanguangyi@genomics; Inge Seim, Integrative Biology Laboratory, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210023, China. E-mail: inge@seimlab.org