{"id":147419,"date":"2022-10-02T19:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T00:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/scientists-sequence-the-worlds-largest-pangenome-to-help-unlock-genetic-mysteries-behind-finer-silk"},"modified":"2022-10-02T19:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T00:22:18","slug":"scientists-sequence-the-worlds-largest-pangenome-to-help-unlock-genetic-mysteries-behind-finer-silk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/scientists-sequence-the-worlds-largest-pangenome-to-help-unlock-genetic-mysteries-behind-finer-silk","title":{"rendered":"Scientists sequence the world\u2019s largest pangenome to help unlock genetic mysteries behind finer silk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-sequence-the-worlds-largest-pangenome-to-help-unlock-genetic-mysteries-behind-finer-silk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>BGI Genomics, in collaboration with Southwest University, the State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, and other partners, has constructed a high-resolution pangenome dataset representing almost the entire genomic content in a silkworm.<\/p>\n<p>This research paper, providing genetic insights into artificial selection (domestication and breeding) and ecological adaptation, was published on September 24 in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, due to the scarcity of wild silkworms and technical limitations of former studies, many trait-associated sites were missing. This is the first research ever to digitize silkworm gene pool and create a \u201cdigital silkworm\u201d, greatly facilitating functional genomic research, promoting precise breeding, and thus enabling additional <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/silk\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">silk<\/a> use cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BGI Genomics, in collaboration with Southwest University, the State Key Laboratory of Silkworm Genome Biology, and other partners, has constructed a high-resolution pangenome dataset representing almost the entire genomic content in a silkworm. This research paper, providing genetic insights into artificial selection (domestication and breeding) and ecological adaptation, was published on September 24 in Nature [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}