A chromosome-level reference genome for the giant pink sea star, Pisaster brevispinus, a species severely impacted by wasting.

ABSTRACT: Efforts to protect the ecologically and economically significant California Current Ecosystem from global change will greatly benefit from data about patterns of local adaptation and population connectivity. To facilitate that work, we present a reference-quality genome for the giant pink sea star, Pisaster brevispinus, a species of ecological importance along the Pacific west coast of North America that has been heavily impacted by environmental change and disease. We used Pacific Biosciences HiFi long sequencing reads and Dovetail Omni-C proximity reads to generate a highly contiguous genome assembly of 550 Mb in length. The assembly contains 127 scaffolds with a contig N50 of 4.6 Mb and a scaffold N50 of 21.4 Mb; the BUSCO completeness score is 98.70%. The P. brevispinus genome assembly

SUBMITTER: DeBiasse MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9709977 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature