A new chromosome-level genome assembly for western painted turtle Chrysemys picta bellii, a model for extreme physiological adaptations

Authors

• Junhao Chen, Saint Louis University
• John R Bermingham Jr, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Patrick Minx, Retired
• Milinn Kremitzky, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Zhenguo Lin, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
• Daniel E Warren, Saint Louis University

Journal

BMC genomics

Publication Date

3-6-2026

Volume

27

Issue

1

First Page

375

Document Type

Open Access Publication

DOI

10.1186/s12864-026-12683-1

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Chen, J., Bermingham, J.R., Minx, P. et al. A new chromosome-level genome assembly for western painted turtle Chrysemys picta bellii, a model for extreme physiological adaptations. BMC Genomics 27, 375 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-026-12683-1 This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, which permits any non-commercial use, sharing, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if you modified the licensed material. You do not have permission under this licence to share adapted material derived from this article or parts of it. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

Recommended Citation

Chen, Junhao; Bermingham, John R Jr; Minx, Patrick; Kremitzky, Milinn; Lin, Zhenguo; and Warren, Daniel E, "A new chromosome-level genome assembly for western painted turtle Chrysemys picta bellii, a model for extreme physiological adaptations." BMC genomics. 27, 1. 375 (2026).
https://digitalcommons.wustl.edu/oa_4/7362

Department

ICTS (Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences)

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