Draft genome of the aquatic moss Fontinalis antipyretica (Fontinalaceae, Bryophyta)
Jin Yu ,
Linzhou Li ,
Sibo Wang ,
Shanshan Dong ,
Ziqiang Chen ,
Nikisha Patel ,
Bernard Goffinet ,
Hongfeng Chen ,
Huan Liu ,
Yang Liu
Affiliations
Jin Yu
BGI Education Center, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518083, China, State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen & China National GeneBank, Shenzhen 518083, China
Linzhou Li
State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen & China National GeneBank, Shenzhen 518083, China
Sibo Wang
State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen & China National GeneBank, Shenzhen 518083, China
Shanshan Dong
Laboratory of Southern Subtropical Plant Diversity, Fairy Lake Botanical Garden, Shenzhen & Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518004, China
Ziqiang Chen
College of Chinese Medicine Materials, Jilin Agricultural University, Changchun 130012, China
Nikisha Patel
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3043, USA
State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen & China National GeneBank, Shenzhen 518083, China, Laboratory of Southern Subtropical Plant Diversity, Fairy Lake Botanical Garden, Shenzhen & Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518004, China
Mosses comprise one of three lineages forming a sister group to extant vascular plants. Having emerged from an early split in the diversification of embryophytes, mosses may offer complementary insights into the evolution of traits following the transition to, and colonization of, land. Here, we report the draft nuclear genome of Fontinalis antipyretica (Fontinalaceae, Hypnales), a charismatic aquatic moss that is widespread in temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. We sequenced and de novo-assembled its genome using the 10X Genomics method. The genome comprises 385.2 Mbp, with a scaffold N50 of 45.8 Kbp. The assembly captured 87.2% of the 430 genes in the BUSCO Viridiplantae odb10 dataset. The newly generated F. antipyretica genome is the third moss genome, and the second seedless aquatic plant genome, to be sequenced and assembled to date.
