The Chromosome-Level Reference Genome of Tea Tree Unveils Recent Bursts of Non-autonomous LTR Retrotransposons in Driving Genome Size Evolution

Affiliations

• ¹ Institution of Genomics and Bioinformatics, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China.
• ² Novogene Bioinformatics Institute, Building 301, Zone A10 Jiuxianqiao North Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100083, China; School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China.
• ³ Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650204, China; University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China.
• ⁴ Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650204, China.
• ⁵ Agro-biological Gene Research Center, Guangdong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guangzhou, 510640, China.
• ⁶ Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China.
• ⁷ Novogene Bioinformatics Institute, Building 301, Zone A10 Jiuxianqiao North Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100083, China.
• ⁸ Yunnan Pu'er Tea Tree Breeding Station, No. 212 Zhenxing Avenue, Simao District, Pu Er, Yunnan 665099, China.
• ⁹ John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
• ¹⁰ Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
• ¹¹ Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha 410128, China. Electronic address: larkin-liu@163.com.
• ¹² Institution of Genomics and Bioinformatics, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China; Plant Germplasm and Genomics Center, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650204, China. Electronic address: lgaogenomics@163.com.