Revealing evolutionary history of corals using whole genomes of five Acropora species

了解物种形成和多样化在进化生物学中很重要。在这个项目中，我使用了5个Acropora基因组来研究珊瑚礁的渗入和全基因组复制(WGD)。我找到了支持导入和WGD的基因组证据，并说明了导入和WGD对顶孢子菌物种形成和多样化的重要性。此外，我还公开了相关的流水线，以供其他研究人员重复我的工作或将我开发的方法应用于他们的工作。请参见(https://github.com/MaoYafei)The相关工作已发表在《当代生物学》(毛、亚菲、埃文·P·伊科诺莫和佐藤纪之)上。“渐渗和气候变化在Acropora珊瑚崛起为优势的过程中所起的作用。”当代生物学28.21(2018)：3373-3382)，iScience(毛亚飞和佐藤纪之)。在特殊造礁珊瑚属Acropora中可能存在古代基因组复制。IScience 13(2019)：20-32)，PeerJ(毛亚飞)。“GenDup管道：使用基于DS的方法检测基因组复制的工具。”PeerJ 7(2019)：e6303。)和珊瑚礁(毛，Y.珊瑚礁(2019)。Https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-019-01869-7).These的工作为珊瑚的复原力以及珊瑚礁生物多样性和保护提供了新的见解。

Understanding speciation and diversification is important in evolutionary biology. In this project, I used 5 Acropora genomes to investigate introgression and whole genome duplication (WGD) in coral reefs. I found the genomic evidence to support introgression and WGD, and illustrated the importance of introgression and WGD to speciation and diversification of Acropora. In addition, I have published the related pipeline in public for other researcher to repeat my work or apply their work with my developed methods. Please see (https://github.com/MaoYafei)The related work has been published in Current biology (Mao, Yafei, Evan P. Economo, and Noriyuki Satoh. "The roles of introgression and climate change in the rise to dominance of Acropora Corals." Current Biology 28.21 (2018): 3373-3382.), iScience (Mao, Yafei, and Noriyuki Satoh. "A Likely Ancient Genome Duplication in the Speciose Reef-Building Coral Genus, Acropora." iScience 13 (2019): 20-32.), PeerJ (Mao, Yafei. "GenoDup Pipeline: a tool to detect genome duplication using the dS-based method." PeerJ 7 (2019): e6303.) and Coral reefs (Mao, Y. Coral Reefs (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-019-01869-7).These work provides new insights into coral resilience, as well as coral reef biodiversity and conservation.