Scientific Data (Nov 2024)

Chromosome-level genome assembly and annotation of the tropical sea cucumber Stichopus monotuberculatus

  • Ting Chen,
  • Yun Yang,
  • Xuan Wang,
  • Zhou Qin,
  • Zhenyu Xie,
  • Dingding Fan,
  • Chunhua Ren,
  • Hongyan Sun,
  • Peng Luo,
  • Xiao Jiang,
  • Hao Long,
  • Chang Chen,
  • Wenjie Pan,
  • Zixuan E.,
  • Jiasheng Huang,
  • Qianying Huang,
  • Jianfeng Xu,
  • Zepeng Zhang,
  • Chuhang Cheng,
  • Suzhong Yu,
  • Yanhong Wang,
  • Fajun Jiang,
  • Aifen Yan,
  • Chaoqun Hu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03985-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Abstract In this study, a chromosome-level genome of the tropical sea cucumber Stichopus monotuberculatus was generated by a combination of Nanopore long-read, Illumina short-read, and Hi-C sequencing technologies. The final assembly was 810.54 Mb in length, with contig N50 and scaffold N50 values of 10.15 Mb and 35.36 Mb, respectively. This assembly comprised 23 pseudo-chromosomes, covering 99.82% of the genome. Completeness analysis using BUSCO indicated that 97.8% of the metazoan conserved genes were presented in their entirety. A total of 29,596 protein-coding genes were predicted, with functional annotations available for 94.43% of these genes. The high-quality genome assembly produced in this study may provide an essential foundation for future researches on resource conservation and genetic breeding of S. monotuberculatus.