#GenDivRange also provides a web app for visualisation of genetic diversity patterns. Try it now!

webapps.wsl.ch/GenDivRange/

#RShiny

#GenDivRange also integrates supplemental information such as #habitat type, IUCN RedList status, #taxonomy etc.

Thank you Leo!

A little bonus take-away: we found that #BUSCO is inaccurate in these conifer megagenomes, many of the predicted single-copy genes actually show considerable variation in normalised coverage. It is understandable as up to odb_10, no reference species is a conifer.

Our study demonstrated how long-insert #sequence capture and a de novo local assembly approach help study genomics effectively in these #megagenomes (> 20 Gbp)! Also a big shout out to @ArborBio and @nanopore!

Interestingly the gene involved in the pathway one step before, Ugt5b, is found to be dominantly single-copy.

We see CNV among populations of white spruce, which co-occur with the budworms, but not in Norway spruce. This might imply potential selection forces on the gene in white spruce.

This gene encodes the enzyme that catalyses the conversion of glucosides to the active forms piceol and pungenol, which confer #resistance against herbivory of spruce #budworm.

spruce tree!