The draft genome of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) and resequencing of 20 diverse accessions

Nature Genetics

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 51-58

  Xu, Yong ^a   Wang, Jun ^c,p   Guo, Shaogui ^a,b   Zhang, Jianguo ^c,d   Sun, Honghe ^a,b,e   Salse, Jerome ^f   Lucas, William J ^g   Zhang, Haiying ^a   Zheng, Yi ^b   Mao, Linyong ^b   Ren, Yi ^a   Wang, Zhiwen ^c   Min, Jiumeng ^c   Guo, Xiaosen ^c   Murat, Florent ^f   Ham, Byung Kook ^g   Zhang, Zhaoliang ^g   Gao, Shan ^b   Huang, Mingyun ^b   Xu, Yimin ^b   Zhong, Silin ^b   Bombarely, Aureliano ^b   Mueller, Lukas A ^b   Zhao, Hong ^a   He, Hongju ^a   Zhang, Yan ^a   Zhang, Zhonghua ^h   Huang, Sanwen ^h   Tan, Tao ⁱ   Pang, Erli ⁱ   Lin, Kui ⁱ   Hu, Qun ^j   Kuang, Hanhui ^j   Ni, Peixiang ^c,d   Wang, Bo ^c   Liu, Jingan ^a   Kou, Qinghe ^a   Hou, Wenju ^a   Zou, Xiaohua ^a   Jiang, Jiao ^a   Gong, Guoyi ^a   Klee, Kathrin ^k   Schoof, Heiko ^k   Huang, Ying ^c   Hu, Xuesong ^c   Dong, Shanshan ^c   Liang, Dequan ^c   Wang, Juan ^c   Wu, Kui ^c   Xia, Yang ^a   Zhao, Xiang ^c   Zheng, Zequn ^c   Xing, Miao ^c   Liang, Xinming ^c   Huang, Bangqing ^c   Lv, Tian ^c   Wang, Junyi ^c   Yin, Ye ^c   Yi, Hongping ^l   Li, Ruiqiang ^m   Wu, Mingzhu ^l   Levi, Amnon ⁿ   Zhang, Xingping ^a   Giovannoni, James J ^b,o   Li, Yunfu ^a   Fei, Zhangjun ^b,o   more..

^a BEIJING VEGETABLE RESEARCH CENTER   (China)

^b Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research   (United States)

^c BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (China)

^f Diversity and Ecophysiology of Cereals   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

ⁱ BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^j HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^k UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^l INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^m Beijing Novogene Bioinformatics Technology   (China)

ⁿ AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^o ROBERT W HOLLEY CENTER FOR AGRICULTURE AND HEALTH   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRULLINE; SUGAR;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; CUCUMBER; CULTIVAR; DOMESTICATION; EUDICOT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERMPLASM; HAPLOTYPE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT CHROMOSOME; PLANT GENE; PLANT GENOME; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SUGAR TRANSPORT; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; WATERMELON;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; CITRULLUS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, PLANT; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE ANNOTATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; TRANSCRIPTOME;

CITRULLUS LANATUS; CITRULLUS LANATUS VAR. LANATUS; CUCUMIS SATIVUS;

EID: 84871941712     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2470     Document Type: Article

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