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