Journal
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES
Volume 20, Issue 4, Pages 1093-1109Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.13187
Keywords
Alpine whitefish; Coregonus; genome assembly; Salmonidae; whitefish
Funding
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) [31003A_163446/1]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) [31003A_163446] Funding Source: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
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Salmonids are of particular interest to evolutionary biologists due to their incredible diversity of life-history strategies and the speed at which many salmonid species have diversified. In Switzerland alone, over 30 species of Alpine whitefish from the subfamily Coregoninae have evolved since the last glacial maximum, with species exhibiting a diverse range of morphological and behavioural phenotypes. This, combined with the whole genome duplication which occurred in the ancestor of all salmonids, makes the Alpine whitefish radiation a particularly interesting system in which to study the genetic basis of adaptation and speciation and the impacts of ploidy changes and subsequent rediploidization on genome evolution. Although well-curated genome assemblies exist for many species within Salmonidae, genomic resources for the subfamily Coregoninae are lacking. To assemble a whitefish reference genome, we carried out PacBio sequencing from one wild-caught Coregonus sp. Balchen from Lake Thun to similar to 90x coverage. PacBio reads were assembled independently using three different assemblers, falcon, canu and wtdbg2 and subsequently scaffolded with additional Hi-C data. All three assemblies were highly contiguous, had strong synteny to a previously published Coregonus linkage map, and when mapping additional short-read data to each of the assemblies, coverage was fairly even across most chromosome-scale scaffolds. Here, we present the first de novo genome assembly for the Salmonid subfamily Coregoninae. The final 2.2-Gb wtdbg2 assembly included 40 scaffolds, an N50 of 51.9 Mb and was 93.3% complete for BUSCOs. The assembly consisted of similar to 52% transposable elements and contained 44,525 genes.
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