A PacBio Hi-Fi Genome Assembly of the Painter's Mussel Unio pictorum (Linnaeus, 1758).

ABSTRACT: The highly diverse group of freshwater mussels from order Unionida is found in the world's freshwater systems due to several fascinating evolutionary adaptations, including "parental care," and most notably, an obligatory parasitic phase in their early life cycle, called glochidia, which infests and uses fish for nutrition and dispersal. Freshwater mussels play essential ecological roles in freshwater habitats, including water filtration, sediment bioturbation, and nutrient cycling. However, these species are also highly threatened, being one of the faunal groups with the highest recorded extinction rate in the wild. Genomics methods have an incredible potential to promote biodiversity conservation, allowing the characterization of population health, identification of adaptive genetic elem

SUBMITTER: Gomes-Dos-Santos A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10329264 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature