Reference genome of the color polymorphic desert annual plant sandblossoms, Linanthus parryae.

ABSTRACT: Sandblossoms, Linanthus parryae is a widespread annual plant species found in washes and sandy open habitats across the Mojave Desert and Eastern Sierra Nevada of California. Studies in this species have played a central role in evolutionary biology, serving as the first test cases of the shifting balance theory of evolution, models of isolation by distance, and metrics to describe the genetic structure of natural populations. Despite the importance of L. parryae in the development of landscape genetics and phylogeography, there are no genomic resources available for the species. Through the California Conservation Genomics Project, we assembled the first genome in the genus Linanthus. Using PacBio HiFi long reads and Hi-C chromatin conformation capture, we assembled 123 scaffolds spanning

SUBMITTER: Anghel IG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9709995 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature