期刊
G3-GENES GENOMES GENETICS
卷 5, 期 11, 页码 2441-2452出版社
GENETICS SOCIETY AMERICA
DOI: 10.1534/g3.115.020164
关键词
coral; phylogenomics; nonmodel system; database
资金
- Oregon State University, Department of Integrative Biology
- Oregon State University Libraries & Press Open Access Fund
Many nonmodel species exemplify important biological questions but lack the sequence resources required to study the genes and genomic regions underlying traits of interest. Reef-building corals are famously sensitive to rising seawater temperatures, motivating ongoing research into their stress responses and long-term prospects in a changing climate. A comprehensive understanding of these processes will require extending beyond the sequenced coral genome (Acropora digitifera) to encompass diverse coral species and related anthozoans. Toward that end, we have assembled and annotated reference transcriptomes to develop catalogs of gene sequences for three scleractinian corals (Fungia scutaria, Montastraea cavernosa, Seriatopora hystrix) and a temperate anemone (Anthopleura elegantissima). High-throughput sequencing of cDNA libraries produced similar to 20-30 million reads per sample, and de novo assembly of these reads produced similar to 75,000-110,000 transcripts from each sample with size distributions (mean similar to 1.4 kb, N-50 similar to 2 kb), comparable to the distribution of gene models from the coral genome (mean similar to 1.7 kb, N-50 similar to 2.2 kb). Each assembly includes matches for more than half the gene models from A. digitifera (54-67%) and many reasonably complete transcripts (similar to 5300-6700) spanning nearly the entire gene (ortholog hit ratios >= 0.75). The catalogs of gene sequences developed in this study made it possible to identify hundreds to thousands of orthologs across diverse scleractinian species and related taxa. We used these sequences for phylogenetic inference, recovering known relationships and demonstrating superior performance over phylogenetic trees constructed using single mitochondrial loci. The resources developed in this study provide gene sequences and genetic markers for several anthozoan species. To enhance the utility of these resources for the research community, we developed searchable databases enabling researchers to rapidly recover sequences for genes of interest. Our analysis of de novo assembly quality highlights metrics that we expect will be useful for evaluating the relative quality of other de novo transcriptome assemblies. The identification of orthologous sequences and phylogenetic reconstruction demonstrates the feasibility of these methods for clarifying the substantial uncertainties in the existing scleractinian phylogeny.
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