The Genome Architecture of the Copepod Eurytemora carolleeae - the Highly Invasive Atlantic Clade of the Eurytemoraaffinis Species Complex.

ABSTRACT: Copepods are among the most abundant organisms on the planet and play critical functions in aquatic ecosystems. Among copepods, populations of the Eurytemora affinis species complex are numerically dominant in many coastal habitats and serve as food sources for major fisheries. Intriguingly, certain populations possess the unusual capacity to invade novel salinities on rapid time scales. Despite their ecological importance, high-quality genomic resources have been absent for calanoid copepods, limiting our ability to comprehensively dissect the genome architecture underlying the highly invasive and adaptive capacity of certain populations. Here, we present the first chromosome-level genome of a calanoid copepod, from the Atlantic clade (Eurytemora carolleeae) of the E. affinis species comp

SUBMITTER: Du Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11706791 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature