Claim · model-written summary
Major repeat arrays are discontinuous and often interspersed with retroelements.
- Outcome
- major tandem repeat arrays (CentC, knob180, and TR-1) are discontinuous and frequently interspersed with retroelementse1
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Verbatim
e0“a maize genome (B73-Ab10)”
e1“the major tandem repeat arrays (CentC, knob180, and TR-1) are discontinuous and frequently interspersed with retroelements”
Title
Gapless assembly of maize chromosomes using long-read technologies
Jianing Liu; Arun S. Seetharam; Kapeel Chougule; et al. Genome biology 2020. doi:10.1186/s13059-020-02029-9
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Method / resource The maize B73-Ab10 assembly has 63 contigs and N50 of 162 Mb.
- Method / resource Chromosome 3 was assembled gaplessly at 236 Mb.
- Method / resource Chromosome 9 was assembled gaplessly at 162 Mb.
- Method / resource The assembly includes 53 Mb of the Ab10 meiotic drive haplotype.
- Method / resource The data reveal internal structure of seven centromeres and five heterochromatic knobs.