The Draft Genome of the Small, Spineless Green Alga Desmodesmus costato-granulatus (Sphaeropleales, Chlorophyta)

Sibo Wang; Linzhou Li; Yan Xu; Barbara Melkonian; Maike Lorenz; Thomas Friedl; Morten Petersen; Sunil Kumar Sahu; Michael Melkonian; Huan Liu

doi:10.1016/j.protis.2019.125697

The Draft Genome of the Small, Spineless Green Alga Desmodesmus costato-granulatus (Sphaeropleales, Chlorophyta)

Protist. 2019 Dec;170(6):125697. doi: 10.1016/j.protis.2019.125697. Epub 2019 Oct 25.

Authors

Sibo Wang¹, Linzhou Li², Yan Xu³, Barbara Melkonian⁴, Maike Lorenz⁵, Thomas Friedl⁵, Morten Petersen⁶, Sunil Kumar Sahu⁷, Michael Melkonian⁸, Huan Liu⁹

Affiliations

¹ BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, Shenzhen 518083, China; Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
² BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, Shenzhen 518083, China; Department of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.
³ BGI Education Center, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China.
⁴ University of Duisburg-Essen, Campus Essen, Faculty of Biology, Universitätsstr. 2, 45141 Essen, Germany.
⁵ Department 'Experimentelle Phykologie und Sammlung von Algenkulturen', University of Göttingen, Nikolausberger Weg 18, 37073 Göttingen, Germany.
⁶ Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
⁷ BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, Shenzhen 518083, China; State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China.
⁸ University of Duisburg-Essen, Campus Essen, Faculty of Biology, Universitätsstr. 2, 45141 Essen, Germany. Electronic address: michael.melkonian@uni-koeln.de.
⁹ BGI-Shenzhen, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, Shenzhen 518083, China; Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Electronic address: liuhuan@genomics.cn.

PMID: 31751779
DOI: 10.1016/j.protis.2019.125697

Abstract

Desmodesmus costato-granulatus (Skuja) Hegewald 2000 (Sphaeropleales, Chlorophyta) is a small, spineless green alga that is abundant in the freshwater phytoplankton of oligo- to eutrophic waters worldwide. It has a high lipid content and is considered for sustainable production of diverse compounds, including biofuels. Here, we report the draft whole-genome shotgun sequencing of D. costato-granulatus strain SAG 18.81. The final assembly comprises 48,879,637bp with over 4,141 scaffolds. This whole-genome project is publicly available in the CNSA (https://db.cngb.org/cnsa/) of CNGBdb under the accession number CNP0000701.

Keywords: Scenedesmaceae; comparative genomics.; genome.

MeSH terms

Chlorophyceae / genetics*
Fresh Water
Genome, Protozoan / genetics*
Whole Genome Sequencing