Comparative analysis using a chromosome-scale genome assembly for Funaria hygrometrica suggests greater collinearity in mosses than in seed plants
Kirbis A, Rahmatpour N, Dong S, Yu J, Waser L, Huang H, van Gessel N, Waller M, Reski R, Lang D, Rensing S A, Temsch Eva M, Wegrzyn J L, Goffinet B, Liu Y, Szövényi P.
This chromosome-scale genome assembly study on Funaria hygrometrica reveals that moss genomes are smaller, more stable, and exhibit higher synteny than seed plant genomes, likely due to lower gene order reshuffling and a more even distribution of transposable elements and genes along chromosomes.
