Miniaturization, which is a common feature in animals, is particularly manifest in meiofauna—animals sharing peculiar phenotypic features that evolved as adaptations to the highly specialized aquatic interstitial habitat. While revealing much about the extreme phyletic diversity of meiofauna, the genome structure of meiofaunal species could also characterize the phenotype of ancestral states as well as explain the origin and evolution of miniaturization. Here, we present a practical bioinformatics tutorial for genome assembly, genome comparison, and characterization of Hox clusters in meiofaunal species.
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Sevigny, J. L., Norenburg, J. L., & Leasi, F. (2021). A Bioinformatics Tutorial for Comparative Development Genomics in Diverse Meiofauna. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 2219, pp. 289–305). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0974-3_19
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