Nematode histone H2A variant evolution reveals diverse histories of retention and loss and evidence for conserved core-like variant histone genes

• Swadha Singh,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Quantitative & Systems Biology, University of California, Merced, Merced, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9047-2145

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• Noelle Anderson,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Diana Chu ,

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

  * E-mail: scottwroy@gmail.com (SWR); chud@sfsu.edu (DC)

  Affiliation Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Scott W. Roy

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: scottwroy@gmail.com (SWR); chud@sfsu.edu (DC)

  Affiliations Quantitative & Systems Biology, University of California, Merced, Merced, California, United States of America, Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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