Wellcome Open Research (Apr 2024)
The genome sequences of the marine diatom Epithemia pelagica strain UHM3201 (Schvarcz, Stancheva & Steward, 2022) and its nitrogen-fixing, endosymbiotic cyanobacterium [version 1; peer review: 2 approved]
- Christopher R. Schvarcz,
- Eerik Aunin,
- Kendra A. Turk-Kubo,
- Rosalina Stancheva,
- Jonathan P. Zehr,
- Victoria McKenna,
- Samuel T. Wilson,
- Grieg F. Steward,
- Kyle F. Edwards,
- John M. Archibald,
- Elizabeth Sinclair,
- Graeme Oatley,
- Camilla Santos,
- Noah Gettle,
- Haoyu Niu,
- Michael Paulini,
- Rebecca O’Brien
Affiliations
- Christopher R. Schvarcz
- ORCiD
- Department of Oceanography, Daniel K. Inouye Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE), University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- Eerik Aunin
- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, England, UK
- Kendra A. Turk-Kubo
- Department of Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA
- Rosalina Stancheva
- Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
- Jonathan P. Zehr
- ORCiD
- Department of Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA
- Victoria McKenna
- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, England, UK
- Samuel T. Wilson
- School of Natural & Environmental Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, UK
- Grieg F. Steward
- ORCiD
- Department of Oceanography, Daniel K. Inouye Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE), University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- Kyle F. Edwards
- Department of Oceanography, Daniel K. Inouye Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C-MORE), University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- John M. Archibald
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Elizabeth Sinclair
- ORCiD
- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, England, UK
- Graeme Oatley
- ORCiD
- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, England, UK
- Camilla Santos
- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, England, UK
- Noah Gettle
- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, England, UK
- Haoyu Niu
- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, England, UK
- Michael Paulini
- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, England, UK
- Rebecca O’Brien
- Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, England, UK
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9
Abstract
We present the genome assembly of the pennate diatom Epithemia pelagica strain UHM3201 (Ochrophyta; Bacillariophyceae; Rhopalodiales; Rhopalodiaceae) and that of its cyanobacterial endosymbiont (Chroococcales: Aphanothecaceae). The genome sequence of the diatom is 60.3 megabases in span, and the cyanobacterial genome has a length of 2.48 megabases. Most of the diatom nuclear genome assembly is scaffolded into 15 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The organelle genomes have also been assembled, with the mitochondrial genome 40.08 kilobases and the plastid genome 130.75 kilobases in length. A number of other prokaryote MAGs were also assembled.
