Journal
GENES
Volume 12, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/genes12111710
Keywords
genome skimming; low-pass genome sequencing; genomic resources
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- Alvaro Ugalde Scholarship (Osa Conservation)
- Gray FishTag Research
- Federacion Costarricense de Pesca (FECOP) [16P10307C1-02]
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This study reported the genome information of the Roosterfish for the first time, including genome size, repetitive elements, etc., which are crucial for improving the understanding of the species' biology, developing conservation plans, and managing the fishery.
The 'Pez Gallo' or the Roosterfish, Nematistius pectoralis, is an ecologically relevant species in the shallow water soft-bottom environments and a target of a most lucrative recreational sport fishery in the Central Eastern Pacific Ocean. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, N. pectoralis is assessed globally as Data Deficient. Using low-coverage short Illumina 300 bp pair-end reads sequencing, this study reports, for the first time, the genome size, single/low-copy genome content, and nuclear repetitive elements, including the 45S rRNA DNA operon and microsatellites, in N. pectoralis. The haploid genome size estimated using a k-mer approach was 816.04 Mbp, which is within the range previously reported for other representatives of the Carangiformes order. Single/low-copy genome content (63%) was relatively high. A large portion of repetitive sequences could not be assigned to the known repeat element families. Considering only annotated repetitive elements, the most common were classified as Satellite DNA which were considerably more abundant than Class I-Long Interspersed Nuclear Elements and Class I-LTR Retroviral elements. The nuclear ribosomal operon in N. pectoralis consists of, in the following order: a 5 & PRIME; ETS (length = 948 bp), ssrDNA (1835 bp), ITS1 (724 bp), a 5.8S rDNA (158 bp), ITS2 (508 bp), lsrDNA (3924 bp), and a 3 & PRIME; ETS (32 bp). A total of 44 SSRs were identified. These newly developed genomic resources are most relevant for improving the understanding of biology, developing conservation plans, and managing the fishery of the iconic N. pectoralis.
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