Bioinformatic and fine-scale chromosomal mapping reveal the nature and evolution of eliminated chromosomes in the Japanese hagfish, Eptatretus burgeri, through analysis of repetitive DNA families

• Kohei Nagao,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Toho University, Funabashi, Chiba, Japan

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• Yoshiki Tanaka,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Life Science and Technology, School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Rei Kajitani,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Life Science and Technology, School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Atsushi Toyoda,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliations Advanced Genomics Center, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan, Comparative Genomics Laboratory, National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0728-7548

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• Takehiko Itoh,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Life Science and Technology, School of Life Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Souichirou Kubota,

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

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Toho University, Funabashi, Chiba, Japan

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• Yuji Goto

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

  * E-mail: ygoto@bio.sci.toho-u.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Toho University, Funabashi, Chiba, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2636-4335

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