Pubblicazione scientifica

The Genome Assembly and Annotation of the Southern Elephant Seal Mirounga leonina

FILONE TECNOLOGICO	TEMA
economia circolare e sostenibilità

RIASSUNTO

The southern elephant seal Mirounga leonina is the largest phocid seal and one of the two species of elephant seals. They are listed as ‘least concern’ by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species 2015. Here, we have assembled the reference genome for M. leonina using the 10× chromium sequencing platform. The final genome assembly of M. leonina was 2.42 Gb long, with a contig N50 length of 54 Mb and a maximum length of 111.6 Mb. The M. leonina genome contained 20,457 predicted protein-coding genes and possessed 41.51% repeated sequences. The completeness of the M. leonina genome was evaluated using benchmarking universal single-copy orthologous genes (BUSCOs): the assembly was highly complete, containing 95.6% of the core set of mammalian genes. The high-quality genomic information on M. leonina will be essential for further understanding of adaptive metabolism upon repeated breath-hold dives and the exploration of molecular mechanisms contributing to its unique biochemical and physiological characteristics. The southern elephant seal genome project was deposited at NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information) under BioProject number PRJNA587380.

DATA

Data di pubblicazione: 03/02/2020

AUTORI

KIM BO-MI
LEE YOON JIN
KIM JEONG-HOON
KIM JIN-HYOUNG
KANG SEUNGHYUN
JO EUNA
LEE SEUNG JAE
LEE JUN HYUCK
CHI YOUNG MIN
PARK HYUN

ENTE DI AFFERENZA

UNIT OF RSCH FOR PRACTICAL APPLICATION KOREA POLAR RSCH INST INCHEON 21990 KOREA BOMIKIM KOPRI RE KR B MK KIMJH KOPRI RE KR J HK S KANG KOPRI RE K SK EUNAJO KOPRI RE KR EJ JUNHYUCKLEE KOPRI RE KR JHL
BIOTECHNOLOGY COLLEGE OF LIFE SCIENCES & BIOTECHNOLOGY KOREA UNIV SEOUL 02841 KOREA KUKUPA08 GMAIL COM YJL SKULLCAP KOREA AC KR SJL EZEG KOREA AC KR YMC
POLAR LIFE SCIENCE KOREA POLAR RSCH INST INCHEON 21990 KOREA JHKIM94 KOPRI RE KR
POLAR SCIENCES UNIV SCIENCE & TECH YUSEONG GU DAEJEON 34113 KOREA

RIVISTA

Genes, 11(2), 160

IMPACT FACTOR

3,430

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