A draft genome sequence of the elusive giant squid, Architeuthis dux

Rute R da Fonseca; Alvarina Couto; Andre M Machado; Brona Brejova; Carolin B Albertin; Filipe Silva; Paul Gardner; Tobias Baril; Alex Hayward; Alexandre Campos; Ângela M Ribeiro; Inigo Barrio-Hernandez; Henk-Jan Hoving; Ricardo Tafur-Jimenez; Chong Chu; Barbara Frazão; Bent Petersen; Fernando Peñaloza; Francesco Musacchia; Graham C Alexander; Hugo Osório; Inger Winkelmann; Oleg Simakov; Simon Rasmussen; M Ziaur Rahman; Davide Pisani; Jakob Vinther; Erich Jarvis; Guojie Zhang; Jan M Strugnell; L Filipe C Castro; Olivier Fedrigo; Mateus Patricio; Qiye Li; Sara Rocha; Agostinho Antunes; Yufeng Wu; Bin Ma; Remo Sanges; Tomas Vinar; Blagoy Blagoev; Thomas Sicheritz-Ponten; Rasmus Nielsen; M Thomas P Gilbert

doi:10.1093/gigascience/giz152

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A draft genome sequence of the elusive giant squid, Architeuthis dux

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Rute R da Fonseca

Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate (CMEC), GLOBE Institute, University of Copenhagen

Alvarina Couto

Department of Biochemistry, Genetics and Immunology, University of Vigo

Andre M Machado

CIIMAR, Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, University of Porto

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Abstract

Background The giant squid (Architeuthis dux; Steenstrup, 1857) is an enigmatic giant mollusc with a circumglobal distribution in the deep ocean, except in the high Arctic and Antarctic waters. The elusiveness of the species makes it difficult to study. Thus, having a genome assembled for this deep-sea–dwelling species will allow several pending evolutionary questions to be unlocked. Findings We present a draft genome assembly that includes 200 Gb of Illumina reads, 4 Gb of Moleculo synthetic long reads, and 108 Gb of Chicago libraries, with a final size matching the estimated genome size of 2.7 Gb, and a scaffold N50 of 4.8 Mb. We also present an alternative assembly including 27 Gb raw reads generated using the Pacific Biosciences platform. In addition, we sequenced the proteome of the same individual and RNA from 3 different tissue types from 3 other species of squid (Onychoteuthis banksii, Dosidicus gigas, and Sthenoteuthis oualaniensis) to assist genome annotation. We annotated 33,406 protein-coding genes supported by evidence, and the genome completeness estimated by BUSCO reached 92%. Repetitive regions cover 49.17% of the genome. Conclusions This annotated draft genome of A. dux provides a critical resource to investigate the unique traits of this species, including its gigantism and key adaptations to deep-sea environments.

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cephalopodinvertebrategenome assembly

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journal article

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Englisch [eng]

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https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1376709

DOI

10.1093/gigascience/giz152

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