Chromosome-level genome assembly and annotation of the sharpsnout seabream (Diplodus puntazzo).

ABSTRACT: Diplodus puntazzo is a demersal fish inhabiting the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern Atlantic and plays an important ecological role in coastal areas. Here, we present the first nuclear genome assembly and annotation of this species and genus. We used a combination of PacBio CLR long reads, Illumina short reads and chromatin capture reads (Omni-C) to generate a chromosome-level assembly. The nuclear genome assembly has a total span of 788 Mb, containing 24 chromosome-scale scaffolds (98.76% of the total length), coinciding with its known karyotype. By using RNA-Seq data from D. puntazzo and gene models from closely related species, we also generated a high-quality nuclear annotation. We predicted a total of 87,572 transcripts from the nuclear genome, 26,838 coding, and 60,734 non-coding t

SUBMITTER: Pegueroles C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11971340 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature