Busy 'bout the tree of life: Discoveries from telomere to telomere genomes

Genomic understanding can transform biology, and we at the Tree of Life programme at the Wellcome Sanger Institute are using new long read and long range technologies to generate genomes across eukaryotic biodiversity. With these we hope to lay bare the pattern and process that drives genomic and organismal evolution, and to provide a lasting foundation for future work in ecology, evolution, conservation and biotechnology. I will summarise the state of play of projects in Tree of Life, in particular our Darwin project that aims to sequence all eukaryotic species in this Atlantic Archipelago of Britain and Ireland. To illustrate the power of telomere-to-telomere genome sequences I will use our recent work on nematode chromosome evolution.

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