Monkeyflower (Mimulus) uncovers the evolutionary basis of the eukaryote telomere sequence variation

• Surbhi Kumawat,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

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• Askhan Shametov,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5529-8500

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• Liia R. Valeeva,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

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• Yoonha Ju,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9792-2041

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• Irene Martinez,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Binghamton University (SUNY), Binghamton, New York, United States of America

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• Dhenugen Logeswaran,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3522-3883

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• Hongfei Chen,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Jenn M. Coughlan,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Julian J.-L. Chen,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Molecular Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7253-2722

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• Yao-Wu Yuan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1376-0028

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• James M. Sobel,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Binghamton University (SUNY), Binghamton, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6706-7926

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• Dal-Hoe Koo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pathology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

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• Eugene V. Shakirov,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia, United States of America

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• Jae Young Choi

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jaeyoung.choi@ku.edu

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0238-8980

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