中国和美国科学家报告说，他们成功绘制出了番木瓜的首张基因组草图。这是继拟南芥、水稻、白杨和葡萄之后，科学家迄今破译的第五种被子植物（即开花植物）的基因组序列，将为研究开花植物的进化提供新信息。
参与这一研究的科学家来自美国夏威夷大学、中国南开大学和美国伊利诺伊大学等机构。有关研究成果发表在4月24日正式出版的英国《自然》杂志上。
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Nature 452, 991-996 (24 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/nature06856
The draft genome of the transgenic tropical fruit tree papaya (Carica papaya Linnaeus)
Ray Ming1,2,31, Shaobin Hou3,31, Yun Feng4,5,31, Qingyi Yu1,31, Alexandre Dionne-Laporte3, Jimmy H. Saw3, Pavel Senin3, Wei Wang4,6, Benjamin V. Ly3, Kanako L. T. Lewis3, Steven L. Salzberg7, Lu Feng4,5,6, Meghan R. Jones1, Rachel L. Skelton1, Jan E. Murray1,2, Cuixia Chen2, Wubin Qian4, Junguo Shen5, Peng Du5, Moriah Eustice1,8, Eric Tong1, Haibao Tang9, Eric Lyons10, Robert E. Paull11, Todd P. Michael12, Kerr Wall13, Danny W. Rice14, Henrik Albert15, Ming-Li Wang1, Yun J. Zhu1, Michael Schatz7, Niranjan Nagarajan7, Ricelle A. Acob1,8, Peizhu Guan1,8, Andrea Blas1,8, Ching Man Wai1,11, Christine M. Ackerman1, Yan Ren4, Chao Liu4, Jianmei Wang4, Jianping Wang2, Jong-Kuk Na2, Eugene V. Shakirov16, Brian Haas17, Jyothi Thimmapuram18, David Nelson19, Xiyin Wang9, John E. Bowers9, Andrea R. Gschwend2, Arthur L. Delcher7, Ratnesh Singh1,8, Jon Y. Suzuki15, Savarni Tripathi15, Kabi Neupane20, Hairong Wei21, Beth Irikura11, Maya Paidi1,8, Ning Jiang22, Wenli Zhang23, Gernot Presting8, Aaron Windsor24, Rafael Navajas-Pérez9, Manuel J. Torres9, F. Alex Feltus9, Brad Porter8, Yingjun Li2, A. Max Burroughs7, Ming-Cheng Luo25, Lei Liu18, David A. Christopher8, Stephen M. Mount7,26, Paul H. Moore15, Tak Sugimura27, Jiming Jiang23, Mary A. Schuler28, Vikki Friedman29, Thomas Mitchell-Olds24, Dorothy E. Shippen16, Claude W. dePamphilis13, Jeffrey D. Palmer14, Michael Freeling10, Andrew H. Paterson9, Dennis Gonsalves15, Lei Wang4,5,6 & Maqsudul Alam3,30
Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, Aiea, Hawaii 96701, USA
Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
Advanced Studies in Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area, Tianjin 300457, China
Tianjin Research Center for Functional Genomics and Biochip, Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area, Tianjin 300457, China
Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology of the Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
Department of Molecular Bioscience and Bioengineering, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
Plant Genome Mapping Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA
Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
Waksman Institute of Microbiology and Department of Plant Biology and Pathology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
Department of Biology, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
USDA-ARS, Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center, Hilo, Hawaii 96720, USA
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2128 TAMU, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA
The Institute for Genomic Research, Rockville, Maryland 20850, USA
W.M. Keck Center for Comparative and Functional Genomics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
Department of Molecular Sciences, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee 38163, USA
Leeward Community College, University of Hawaii, Pearl City, Hawaii 96782, USA
Wicell Research Institute, Madison, Wisconsin 53707, USA
Department of Horticulture, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824, USA
Department of Horticulture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA
Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA
Maui High Performance Computing Center, Kihei, Hawaii 96753, USA
Departments of Cell and Developmental Biology, Biochemistry and Plant Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA
Applied Biosystems, 850 Lincoln Centre Drive, Foster City, California 94404, USA
Department of Microbiology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA
These authors contributed equally to this work.
