Near-complete genome assembly and annotation of the yellow drum (Nibea albiflora) provide insights into population and evolutionary characteristics of this species.

ABSTRACT: Yellow drum (Nibea albiflora) is an important fish species in capture fishery and aquaculture in East Asia. We herein report the first and near-complete genome assembly of an ultra-homologous gynogenic female yellow drum using Illumina short sequencing reads. In summary, a total of 154.2 Gb of raw reads were generated via whole-genome sequencing and were assembled to 565.3 Mb genome with a contig N₅₀ size of 50.3 kb and scaffold N₅₀ size of 2.2 Mb (BUSCO completeness of 97.7%), accounting for 97.3%-98.6% of the estimated genome size of this fish. We further identified 22,448 genes using combined methods of ab initio prediction, RNAseq annotation, and protein homology searching, of which 21,614 (96.3%) were functionally annotated in NCBI nr, trEMBL, SwissProt, a

SUBMITTER: Han Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6342179 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature