John K. McCooke

TL;DR: The importance of the barley reference sequence for breeding is demonstrated by inspecting the genomic partitioning of sequence variation in modern elite germplasm, highlighting regions vulnerable to genetic erosion.

TL;DR: Morex as discussed by the authors was constructed by the International Barley Genome Sequencing Consortium (IBSC) using hierarchical shotgun sequencing, and the experimental and computational procedures to sequence and assemble more than 80,000 bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) clones along the minimum tiling path of a genome-wide physical map, find and validate overlaps between adjacent BACs, and order and orient these BAC clusters along the seven barley chromosomes using positional information provided by dense genetic maps.

TL;DR: The LPK rat is established as a novel model system for NPHP and the results indicate the whole propeller structure of the RCC1 domain is important, as the different mutations cause comparable phenotypes.

TL;DR: The draft assembly of a tick genome that utilized a hybrid sequencing and assembly approach to capture the repetitive fractions of the genome and the finding of a novel cytochrome P450 CYP41 homolog that shows similar protein folding structures to known CYP 41 proteins known to be involved in acaricide resistance is reported.

TL;DR: This study assembled the complete R. microplus mitochondrial genome from Illumina and Pac Bio sequencing reads obtained from the ongoing R.microplus (Deutsch strain from Texas, USA) genome sequencing project and compared the Deutsch strainMitogenome to the mitogenome from a Brazilian R.Microplus and from an Australian cattle tick that has recently been taxonomically designated as Rhipicephalus australis.