Genome assembly of the milky mangrove Excoecaria agallocha

Hong Kong Biodiversity Genomics Consortium; Jerome H.L. HUI; Ting Fung CHAN; Leo Lai CHAN; Siu Gin CHEUNG; Chi Chiu CHEANG; James Kar Hei FANG; Juan Diego GAITAN-ESPITIA; Stanley Chun Kwan LAU; Yik Hei SUNG; Chris Kong Chu WONG; Kevin Yuk Lap YIP; Yingying WEI; Sean Tsz Sum LAW; Wai Lok SO; Wenyan NONG; David Tai Wai LAU; Shing Yip LEE; Ho Yin YIP

doi:10.46471/gigabyte.119

Genome assembly of the milky mangrove Excoecaria agallocha

Hong Kong Biodiversity Genomics Consortium, Jerome H.L. HUI, Ting Fung CHAN, Leo Lai CHAN, Siu Gin CHEUNG, Chi Chiu CHEANG, James Kar Hei FANG, Juan Diego GAITAN-ESPITIA, Stanley Chun Kwan LAU, Yik Hei SUNG, Chris Kong Chu WONG, Kevin Yuk Lap YIP, Yingying WEI, Sean Tsz Sum LAW, Wai Lok SO, Wenyan NONG, David Tai Wai LAU, Shing Yip LEE, Ho Yin YIP

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Abstract

The milky mangrove Excoecaria agallocha is a latex-secreting mangrove that are distributed in tropical and subtropical regions. While its poisonous latex is regarded as a potential source of phytochemicals for biomedical applications, the genomic resources of E. agallocha remains limited. Here, we present a chromosomal level genome of E. agallocha, assembled from the combination of PacBio long-read sequencing and Omni-C data. The resulting assembly size is 1,332.45 Mb and has high contiguity and completeness with a scaffold N50 of 58.9 Mb and a BUSCO score of 98.4%, with 86.08% of sequences anchored to 18 pseudomolecules. 73,740 protein-coding genes were also predicted. The milky mangrove genome provides a useful resource for further understanding the biosynthesis of phytochemical compounds in E. agallocha.

Original language	English
Journal	GigaByte
Volume	2024
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.46471/gigabyte.119
Publication status	Published - 2024

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This work was funded and supported by the Hong Kong Research Grant Council Collaborative Research Fund (C4015-20EF), CUHK Strategic Seed Funding for Collaborative Research Scheme (3133356) and CUHK Group Research Scheme (3110154).

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Botany
Genetics and Genomics
Plant Genetics

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Hong Kong Biodiversity Genomics Consortium, HUI, J. H. L., CHAN, T. F., CHAN, L. L., CHEUNG, S. G., CHEANG, C. C., FANG, J. K. H., GAITAN-ESPITIA, J. D., LAU, S. C. K., SUNG, Y. H., WONG, C. K. C., YIP, K. Y. L., WEI, Y., LAW, S. T. S., SO, W. L., NONG, W., LAU, D. T. W., LEE, S. Y., & YIP, H. Y. (2024). Genome assembly of the milky mangrove Excoecaria agallocha. GigaByte, 2024. https://doi.org/10.46471/gigabyte.119

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