bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/691923; this version posted October 21, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 1 Genome sequencing of Musa acuminata Dwarf Cavendish reveals a duplication of a large 2 segment of chromosome 2 3 4 5 Mareike Busche+, Boas Pucker+, Prisca Viehöver, Bernd Weisshaar, Ralf Stracke* 6 7 Genetics and Genomics of Plants, Faculty of BioloGy & Center for BiotechnoloGy (CeBiTec), 8 Bielefeld University, Sequenz 1, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany 9 10 MB:
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[email protected], 0000-0002-9261-2279 15 16 + these authors contributed equally 17 * correspondinG author 18 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/691923; this version posted October 21, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 19 Abstract 20 Different Musa species, subspecies, and cultivars are currently investigated to reveal their 21 genomic diversity. Here, we compare the genome sequence of one of the commercially most 22 important cultivars, Musa acuminata Dwarf Cavendish, against the Pahang reference genome 23 assembly.