Meng Zhang

This study shows that recombination suppression through chromosomal rearrangements preceded fissiparous asexuality in planarians, reducing the costs of asexuality.

This study shows that Rhynchospora tenuis undergoes obligate achiasmy in both sexes, leading to clonal-like inheritance through post-meiotic selection and TE-driven segregation distortion.

The paper links karyotype evolution to meiotic recombination by analyzing holocentric genomes and crossover patterns in Rhynchospora species.

The paper analyzes Tyba satellite DNA repeats and transposable elements in holocentric species to reveal evolutionary dynamics of repeat-based holocentromeres across a pangenome.

This paper presents chromosome-scale genome assemblies and regulatory element annotations for planarians, revealing conservation of regulatory regions despite rapid structural divergence.

The paper investigates meiotic recombination dynamics in a holocentric plant, finding that telomere-led pairing drives a U-shaped crossover distribution, independent of centromere organisation.