1. Draft de novo Genome Assembly of the Elusive Jaguarundi, Puma yagouaroundi
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Natalia A. Serdyukova, Aleksey Komissarov, Ksenia Krasheninnikova, Polina L. Perelman, Stephen J. O'Brien, Daria V. Zhernakova, Pavel Dobrynin, Klaus-Peter Koepfli, Sergei Kliver, David W. Mohr, Gaik Tamazian, Alan F. Scott, Nikolay Cherkasov, Alexander S. Graphodatsky, and Anna S. Zhuk
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Male ,AcademicSubjects/SCI01140 ,0106 biological sciences ,Felidae ,genome annotation ,Jhered/6 ,Genome Resources ,Sequence assembly ,Genomics ,010603 evolutionary biology ,01 natural sciences ,Genome ,linked reads ,03 medical and health sciences ,Puma ,biology.animal ,Genetics ,Animals ,Acinonyx jubatus ,10X Genomics Chromium ,Molecular Biology ,Genetics (clinical) ,Puma yagouaroundi ,030304 developmental biology ,0303 health sciences ,biology ,Contig ,Molecular Sequence Annotation ,Genome project ,biology.organism_classification ,whole genome assembly ,Evolutionary biology ,Female ,Biotechnology - Abstract
The Puma lineage within the family Felidae consists of 3 species that last shared a common ancestor around 4.9 million years ago. Whole-genome sequences of 2 species from the lineage were previously reported: the cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) and the mountain lion (Puma concolor). The present report describes a whole-genome assembly of the remaining species, the jaguarundi (Puma yagouaroundi). We sequenced the genome of a male jaguarundi with 10X Genomics linked reads and assembled the whole-genome sequence. The assembled genome contains a series of scaffolds that reach the length of chromosome arms and is similar in scaffold contiguity to the genome assemblies of cheetah and puma, with a contig N50 = 100.2 kbp and a scaffold N50 = 49.27 Mbp. We assessed the assembled sequence of the jaguarundi genome using BUSCO, aligned reads of the sequenced individual and another published female jaguarundi to the assembled genome, annotated protein-coding genes, repeats, genomic variants and their effects with respect to the protein-coding genes, and analyzed differences of the 2 jaguarundis from the reference mitochondrial genome. The jaguarundi genome assembly and its annotation were compared in quality, variants, and features to the previously reported genome assemblies of puma and cheetah. Computational analyzes used in the study were implemented in transparent and reproducible way to allow their further reuse and modification.
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- 2021