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A high-quality genome assembly and annotation of the gray mangrove, Avicennia marina

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posted on 2023-05-21, 05:56 authored by Friis, G, Vizueta, J, Smith, EG, Nelson, DR, Khraiwesh, B, Qudeimat, E, Salehi-Ashtiani, K, Ortega, A, Alyssa MarshellAlyssa Marshell, Duarte, CM, Burt, JA

The gray mangrove [Avicennia marina (Forsk.) Vierh.] is the most widely distributed mangrove species, ranging throughout the Indo-West Pacific. It presents remarkable levels of geographic variation both in phenotypic traits and habitat, often occupying extreme environments at the edges of its distribution. However, subspecific evolutionary relationships and adaptive mechanisms remain understudied, especially across populations of the West Indian Ocean. High-quality genomic resources accounting for such variability are also sparse. Here we report the first chromosome-level assembly of the genome of A. marina. We used a previously release draft assembly and proximity ligation libraries Chicago and Dovetail HiC for scaffolding, producing a 456,526,188-bp long genome. The largest 32 scaffolds (22.4–10.5 Mb) accounted for 98% of the genome assembly, with the remaining 2% distributed among much shorter 3,759 scaffolds (62.4–1 kb). We annotated 45,032 protein-coding genes using tissue-specific RNA-seq data in combination with de novo gene prediction, from which 34,442 were associated to GO terms. Genome assembly and annotated set of genes yield a 96.7% and 95.1% completeness score, respectively, when compared with the eudicots BUSCO dataset. Furthermore, an FST survey based on resequencing data successfully identified a set of candidate genes potentially involved in local adaptation and revealed patterns of adaptive variability correlating with a temperature gradient in Arabian mangrove populations. Our A. marina genomic assembly provides a highly valuable resource for genome evolution analysis, as well as for identifying functional genes involved in adaptive processes and speciation.

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Publication title

Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volume

11

Article number

jkaa025

Number

jkaa025

Pagination

1-7

ISSN

2160-1836

Department/School

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies

Publisher

Oxford Univ Press

Place of publication

United States

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Copyright The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Genetics Society of America. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Assessment and management of benthic marine ecosystems; Marine biodiversity

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