Telomere-to-Telomere Genome Assembly of Bursaphelenchus okinawaensis Strain SH1

Simo Sun; Ryoji Shinya; Mehmet Dayi; Akemi Yoshida; Paul W Sternberg; Taisei Kikuchi

doi:10.1128/MRA.01000-20

Telomere-to-Telomere Genome Assembly of Bursaphelenchus okinawaensis Strain SH1

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 Oct 22;9(43):e01000-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01000-20.

Authors

Simo Sun¹, Ryoji Shinya², Mehmet Dayi^{1

3}, Akemi Yoshida⁴, Paul W Sternberg⁵, Taisei Kikuchi⁶

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan.
² School of Agriculture, Meiji University, Kawasaki, Japan.
³ Forestry Vocational School, Duzce University, Duzce, Turkey.
⁴ Laboratory of Genomics, Frontier Science Research Center, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan.
⁵ Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA.
⁶ Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan taisei_kikuchi@med.miyazaki-u.ac.jp.

Abstract

Bursaphelenchus okinawaensis is a self-fertilizing, hermaphroditic, fungus-feeding nematode used as a laboratory model for the genus Bursaphelenchus, which includes the important pathogen Bursaphelenchus xylophilus Here, we report the nearly complete genome sequence of B. okinawaensis The 70-Mbp assembly contained six scaffolds (>11 Mbp each) with telomere repeats on their ends, indicating complete chromosomes.