Nicolas Maillet

TL;DR: The Assemblathon 2 as mentioned in this paper presented a variety of sequence data to be assembled for three vertebrate species (a bird, a fish, and a snake) from 21 participating teams.

TL;DR: The Assemblathon 2 as discussed by the authors presented a variety of sequence data to be assembled for three vertebrate species (a bird, a fish, and a snake) from 21 participating teams.

TL;DR: The Assemblathon 1 competition is described, which aimed to comprehensively assess the state of the art in de novo assembly methods when applied to current sequencing technologies, and it is established that it is possible to assemble the genome to a high level of coverage and accuracy.

TL;DR: These results confirmed the predictions that on average, phenotypic quantitative trait loci show higher FST values and are more likely to be outliers (and therefore candidates for being targets of divergent selection) than non-pQTL markers and there is a general trend towards an increase in terms of numbers and size of genomic regions of divergence.

TL;DR: The nature, size and distribution of the genomic regions underlying divergence and promoting reproductive isolation remain largely unknown as discussed by the authors, and the authors summarize ongoing efforts using young (12 000 yr old) individuals.