bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.01.09.900019; this version posted January 9, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.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 Millipede genomes reveal unique adaptation of genes and microRNAs during myriapod 2 evolution 3 4 Zhe Qu1,^, Wenyan Nong1,^, Wai Lok So1,^, Tom Barton-Owen1,^, Yiqian Li1,^, Chade Li1, 5 Thomas C.N. Leung2, Tobias Baril3, Annette Y.P. Wong1, Thomas Swale4, Ting-Fung Chan2, 6 Alexander Hayward3, Sai-Ming Ngai2, Jerome H.L. Hui1,* 7 8 1. School of Life Sciences, Simon F.S. Li Marine Science Laboratory, State Key Laboratory 9 of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 10 11 2. School of Life Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Agrobiotechnology, The Chinese 12 University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong 13 14 3. Department of Conservation and Ecology, Penryn Campus, University of Exeter, United 15 Kingdom 16 17 4. Dovetail Genomics, United States of America 18 19 20 ^ = contributed equally, 21 * = corresponding author,
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