Decoding the naked mole-rat genome, telomere to telomere
Dustin Sokolowski, Alexander Nater, Mihai Miclăuș, Wenjian Meng, Simon Monis, Wing Yui Ngan, Runjia Qu, Jason Erdmann, Alyssa M. Fontanilla, Vladimir A. Trifonov, DongAhn Yoo, Sana Akhtar Alvi, Alison J. Barker, Odei Barreñada, Jonathan Bayerl, , Gabriel Balmus
The paper presents a telomere-to-telomere genome assembly of the naked mole-rat and compares it with a related species to identify gene losses and duplications associated with unique traits.
bioRxiv · Oct 16, 2026 · PreprintGenomics