The genome of the Arctic snow alga Limnomonas spitsbergensis (Chlamydomonadales).

ABSTRACT: Snow algae are a diverse group of extremophilic microeukaryotes found on melting polar and alpine snowfields. They play an important role in the microbial ecology of the cryosphere, and their propagation on snow and ice surfaces may in part accelerate climate-induced melting of these systems. High-quality snow algae genomes are needed for studies on their unique physiology, adaptive mechanisms, and genome evolution under multiple forms of stress, including cold temperatures and intense sunlight. Here, we assembled and annotated the genome of Limnomonas spitsbergensis, a cryophilic biciliate green alga originally isolated from melting snow on Svalbard, in the Arctic. The L. spitsbergensis genome assembly is based primarily on the use of PacBio long reads and secondly Illumina short reads, w

SUBMITTER: Hulatt CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11228838 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature