How genomics can help biodiversity conservation

• Published in: Trends in Genetics
• Main Authors: Theissinger, Kathrin, Fernandes, Carlos, Formenti, Giulio, Bista, Iliana, Berg, Paul R., Bleidorn, Christoph, Bombarely, Aureliano, Crottini, Angelica, Gallo, Guido R., Godoy, José A., Jentoft, Sissel, Malukiewicz, Joanna, Mouton, Alice, Oomen, Rebekah A., Paez, Sadye, Palsbøll, Per J., Pampoulie, Christophe, Ruiz-López, María J., Secomandi, Simona, Svardal, Hannes, Theofanopoulou, Constantina, de Vries, Jan, Waldvogel, Ann-Marie, Zhang, Guojie, Jarvis, Erich D., Bálint, Miklós, Ciofi, Claudio, Waterhouse, Robert M., Mazzoni, Camila J., Höglund, Jacob, The European Reference Genome Atlas Consortium, Layton, Kara
• Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Biological Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Anthropocene; biodiversity genomics; genomic toolbox; reference genomes; conservation applications; European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA); QH301 Biology; QH301; atlantic cod; Lynx
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2164/21907; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tig.2023.01.005

Acknowledgments We thank Cecilia Helmerson, Antonio Rivas, Nelson Lauzon, and Sally Leys, for the pictures of the Atlantic cod, the Iberian lynx, the European beech, and the freshwater sponge, respectively. We also thank Fabien Condamine, Love Dalén, Richard Durbin, Bruno Fosso, Roderic Guigó, Marc Hanikenne, Alberto Pallavicini, Olga Vinnere Pettersson, Xavier Turon, and Detlef Weigel for their contributions to the manuscript, as well as the whole ERGA community for making this possible. Peer reviewed