Barnacle genome paper

Working repository for the Pacific acorn barnacle (Balanus glandula) genome paper:

Rivera-Colón, et al. (2026) Large population sizes shape genome evolution in barnacles bioRxiv. DOI: 10.64898/2026.04.27.721231

Contents

docs/

The docs/ directory contains the necessary files to generate the manuscript LaTeX file.

scripts/

The scripts/ contains a copy and example of the scripts uses for the analysis of the data. See the scripts/METHODS.md document for a file-by-file description of the contents of this directory.

Building

cd docs/
make             # generate PDF (main.pdf)
make submission  # generate the PDFs for journal submission (submission_main.pdf & submission_sups.pdf)
make clean       # remove build artifacts

Authors

Angel G. Rivera-Colon
Institute of Ecology and Evolution
University of Oregon

Scott Small
Institute of Ecology and Evolution
University of Oregon

Erin Jezuit
Institute of Molecular Biology
Oregon Institute of Marine Biology
University of Oregon

John P. Wares
Odum School of Ecology
Department of Genetics
University of Georgia

Andrew Kern
Department of Biology
Institute of Ecology and Evolution
University of Oregon