Draft genome assemblies for two species of Escallonia (Escalloniales).

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Escallonia (Escalloniaceae) belongs to the Escalloniales, a diverse clade of flowering plants with unclear placement in the tree of life. Escallonia species show impressive morphological and ecological diversity and are widely distributed across three hotspots of biodiversity in the Neotropics. To shed light on the genomic substrate of this radiation and the phylogenetic placement of Escalloniales as well as to generate useful data for comparative evolutionary genomics across flowering plants, we produced and annotated draft genomes for two species of Escallonia.

Data description

Genomic DNA from E. rubra and E. herrerae was sequenced with Oxford Nanopore sequencing chemistry, generating 3.4 and 12 million sequence reads with an average read length of 9.4 and 9.1

SUBMITTER: Chanderbali AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10759652 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature