Jacob F Warner, Ryan R Range, Jennifer Fenner, Cheikouna Ka, Damien S Waits, Kristen Boddy, Kyle T David, Andrew R Mahon, Kenneth Halanych
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The Antarctic sea urchin Sterechinus neumayeri (Echinoida;Echinidae) is routinely used as a model organism for Antarctic biology. Here, we present a high-quality genome of S. neumayeri. This chromosomal-level assembly was generated using PacBio long-read sequencing and HiC chromatin conformation capture sequencing. This 885.3 Mb assembly exhibits high contiguity with a scaffold length N50 of 36.7Mb assembled into 20 chromosomal length scaffolds. These putative chromosomes exhibit a high degree of synteny compared to other sea urchin models. We used transcript evidence gene modeling combined with sequence homology to identify 21,638 gene models that capture 97.4% of BUSCO orthologs. Among these, we were able to identify and annotate conserved developmental gene regulatory network orthologs, positioning S. neumayeri as a tractable model for comparative studies on evolution and development.
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Genome Biology and Evolution (GBE) publishes leading original research at the interface between evolutionary biology and genomics. Papers considered for publication report novel evolutionary findings that concern natural genome diversity, population genomics, the structure, function, organisation and expression of genomes, comparative genomics, proteomics, and environmental genomic interactions. Major evolutionary insights from the fields of computational biology, structural biology, developmental biology, and cell biology are also considered, as are theoretical advances in the field of genome evolution. GBE’s scope embraces genome-wide evolutionary investigations at all taxonomic levels and for all forms of life — within populations or across domains. Its aims are to further the understanding of genomes in their evolutionary context and further the understanding of evolution from a genome-wide perspective.
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