Combined analysis of transposable elements and structural variation in maize genomes reveals genome contraction outpaces expansion

• Manisha Munasinghe ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mmunasin@umn.edu

  Affiliation Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0337-6535

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• Andrew Read,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Michelle C. Stitzer,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute for Genomic Diversity, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4140-3765

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• Baoxing Song,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Peking University Institute of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, Weifang, China

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• Claire C. Menard,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8185-1493

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• Kristy Yubo Ma,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-3173-5648

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• Yaniv Brandvain,

  Roles Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Candice N. Hirsch,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8833-3023

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• Nathan Springer

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America

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