Julian Catchen

1 Introduction Globally, the gap between patient demand for transplantable solid organs and a limited available supply results in the deaths of thousands of people each year [1]. Xenotransplantation has the potential for providing transplantable solid organs, i.e., xenografts, without reliance on human donors.

Abstract Natural hybridisation among rare or endangered species and stable congenerics is increasingly topical for the conservation of species-level diversity under anthropogenic impacts. Evidence for beneficial genes being introgressed into or selected for in hybrids raises concurrent questions about its evolutionary significance.

Abstract The improvement and decreasing costs of third-generation sequencing technologies has widened the scope of biological questions researchers can address with de novo genome assemblies. With the increasing number of reference genomes, validating their integrity with minimal overhead is vital for establishing confident results in their applications.