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Chromosome-level bichir genomes reveal ancestral bony vertebrate architecture and regulatory innovations underlying lung origin

Qi Liu1†, Xiaolu Han1†, Yue Song2†, Hong Zhang1, Wenping He1, Xiao Xiang1, Hanchang Sun3, Li Li4*, Karsten Kristiansen2*, Zengbao Yuan1*   

  1. 1 College of Fisheries, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China;
    2 Laboratory of Integrative Biomedicine, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark;
    3 College of Smart Agriculture, Technology Innovation Center of Ecological Fishery Industrialization, Chongqing University of Arts and Sciences, Chongqing 402160, China;
    4 Marine Science Research Institute of Shandong Province (National Oceanographic Center, Qingdao), Qingdao 266104, China
    These authors contributed equally to this work.
    *Authors for correspondence. Li Li. E-mail: gzkllili@163.com; Karsten Kristiansen. E-mail: kk@bio.ku.dk; Zengbao Yuan. E-mail: yuanzengbao1998@163.com
  • Received:2026-05-19 Accepted:2026-07-27
  • Supported by:
    This study was supported by the Modern Agriculture Fish Industry Technology System of Shandong province (SDAIT-12-01).