An improved genome assembly of the saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea (Engelm.) Britton & Rose).
Dario CopettiiD, Alberto Burquez M.iD, Kentaro K. ShimizuiD, Rod A. WingiD, Michael J. SandersoniD, Martin F. WojciechowskiiD
Abstract
We present an improved genome assembly of the saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea (Engelm.) Britton & Rose), obtained by incorporating long-read PacBio data to the existing short reads. The assembly improves in terms of total size, contiguity, and accuracy, allowing to extend the range of sequence analyses beyond the single-gene scale. Consequently, the assembly is 16% larger and has 20% more genes, expanding the resources for a neglected yet very remarkable plant family such as Cactaceae. Species taxonomyEukaryota; Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Streptophytina; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Euphyllophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliopsida; Mesangiospermae; eudicotyledons; Gunneridae; Pentapetalae; Caryophyllales; Cactineae; Cactaceae; Cactoideae; Echinocereeae; Carnegiea gigantea (Engelm.) Britton & Rose) (also known as saguaro cactus) (NCBI txid: 171969).
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