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April 21, 2020

Analysis of Chromosomal Numbers, Mitochondrial Genome, and Full-Length Transcriptome of Onychostoma brevibarba.

Authors: Hu, Fangzhou and Fan, Jingjing and Wu, Chang and Zhu, Ming and Zhou, Yunfan and Wang, Shi and Zhang, Chun and Tao, Min and Zhao, Rurong and Tang, Chenchen and Luo, Kaikun and Qin, Qinbo and Ma, Ming and Chen, Bo and Wang, Jinpu and Zhou, Aiguo and Bai, Liangxiong and Liu, Shaojun

Onychostoma brevibarba is a new discovered species which is distributed in Xiang Jiang River of the middle Chang Jiang basin in Hunan Province, South China. In this study, the ploidy levels of O. brevibarba were confirmed by counting chromosomal numbers and analyzing karyotype. The complete mitochondrial genome of O. brevibarba was determined and analyzed. Besides, we firstly performed the full-length transcriptome of O. brevibarba derived from 5 different tissues using the PacBio SMRT sequencing. The result shows that O. brevibarba was a diploid with 48 chromosomes. The complete mitogenome of O. brevibarba was 16,602 bp in size and very similar (89.1-91.3%) to that of other Onychostoma species but was distinct from all congeners. The full-length transcriptome dataset of O. brevibarba comprised 120,239 unigenes. Among the unigenes, 91,542 were functionally annotated, whereas 26,794 were found to have two or more isoforms. This study could provide many new insights into cytology and molecular characteristics of O. brevibarba; it laid the foundation for further exploration of the genomic signatures of species of Onychostoma.

Journal: Marine biotechnology
DOI: 10.1007/s10126-019-09899-6
Year: 2019

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