International School of Trieste

An exceptionally large and repetitive genome in the cave-dwelling shrimp Troglocaris planinensis

Introduction: Genomic resources for subterranean crustaceans remain scarce, limiting investigation of the molecular basis of adaptation to light-deprived environments. Troglocaris planinensis is a stygobiont freshwater shrimp endemic to the Dinaric Karst that lacks nuclear genomi...