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A new chromosome-level genome assembly for western painted turtle Chrysemys picta bellii, a model for extreme physiological adaptations.

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Authors: Junhao Chen1, John R. Bermingham Jr2, Patrick Minx3, Milinn Kremitzky4, Zhenguo Lin1,2, Daniel E. Warren1
ORCID iDs: Junhao Chen, John R. Bermingham Jr, Patrick Minx, Zhenguo Lin, Daniel E. Warren
  1. Department of Biology, Saint Louis University,St. Louis, MO 63103 USA
  2. Department of Genetics, Washington University in St. Louis,St. Louis, MO 63110 USA
  3. Retired, St. Louis, USA
  4. McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University in St. Louis,St. Louis, MO 63110 USA
Institutions: Saint Louis University (United States); Washington University in St. Louis (United States)
Journal: BMC genomics, volume 27, issue 1, article 375
Dates: received 1 December 2025; accepted 19 February 2026; published online 6 March 2026
Type: Research article · Language: English
License: CC BY-NC-ND
Identifiers: DOI 10.1186/s12864-026-12683-1 · PMID 41792601 · PMCID PMC13077969 · OpenAlex W7134039605
Open access: gold, a free copy (OpenAlex)
Status: data only
Categories: other (organism), pain (population), cellular / molecular (subfield)
Methods: Preprocessing, Statistics
Keywords: Western painted turtle, Genome, Chrysemys, Anoxia tolerance, PacBio Iso-Seq, Transcript isoforms
MeSH: Adaptation, Physiological*, Chromosomes*, Genome*, Genomics*, Turtles*, Animals, Molecular Sequence Annotation (* major topic)
Topic: Turtle Biology and Conservation (Nature and Landscape Conservation, Environmental Science), according to OpenAlex
Funding: National Science Foundation (1951332, 1253939)
Citations: cited by 1 paper (Europe PMC); 114 references in the paper

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Chen, J., Bermingham, J. R., Minx, P., Kremitzky, M., Lin, Z., & Warren, D. E. (2026). A new chromosome-level genome assembly for western painted turtle Chrysemys picta bellii, a model for extreme physiological adaptations. BMC genomics, 27(1), 375. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-026-12683-1

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@article{chen2026new,
author = {Chen, Junhao and Bermingham, John R. and Minx, Patrick and Kremitzky, Milinn and Lin, Zhenguo and Warren, Daniel E.},
title = {{A new chromosome-level genome assembly for western painted turtle Chrysemys picta bellii, a model for extreme physiological adaptations}},
journal = {BMC genomics},
year = {2026},
month = mar,
volume = {27},
number = {1},
pages = {375},
publisher = {BMC},
issn = {1471-2164},
doi = {10.1186/s12864-026-12683-1},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-026-12683-1},
pmid = {41792601},
pmcid = {PMC13077969}
}

RIS

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AU - Warren, Daniel E.
TI - A new chromosome-level genome assembly for western painted turtle Chrysemys picta bellii, a model for extreme physiological adaptations
T2 - BMC genomics
J2 - BMC Genomics
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/03/06
VL - 27
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SP - 375
SN - 1471-2164
PB - BMC
DO - 10.1186/s12864-026-12683-1
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LA - en
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