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Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas)

Green sea turtles aren't named for the color of their shells or carapaces which are normally brown or olive; they're named for the greenish hue of their skin. Green sea turtles are the world's largest species of hard-shelled sea turtle! Read more about green sea turtles on National Geographic.

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Photo by Victor G. Corces, Emory University

Chromosome-length genome assembly

Download the CheMyd_1.0_HiC.fasta.gz file containing the chromosome-length (2n=56) assembly of the green sea turtle genome. All modifications with respect to the draft (see below) are annotated in the CheMyd_1.0_HiC.assembly file. Some basic stats associated with the new reference, CheMyd_1.0_HiC, are listed below. The full data release can be explored here.

Contig length (bp)
Number of contigs
Contig N50 (bp)
Longest contig (bp)
2,110,365,500
275,152
29,183
290,440
Scaffold length (bp)
Number of scaffolds
Scaffold N50 (bp)
Longest scaffold (bp)
2,209,090,063
139,044
127,535,543
344,580,086
Draft

The chromosome-length genome assembly is based on the draft assembly CheMyd_1.0 (GCA_000344595.1), credited below.

Wang, Zhuo, Juan Pascual-Anaya, Amonida Zadissa, Wenqi Li, Yoshihito Niimura, Zhiyong Huang, Chunyi Li, et al. 2013. "The Draft Genomes of Soft-Shell Turtle and Green Sea Turtle Yield Insights into the Development and Evolution of the Turtle-Specific Body Plan." Nature Genetics 45 (6): 701-6. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2615.

Method

3D Assembly was performed using 3D-DNA pipeline (Dudchenko et al., Science, 2017). The genome was reviewed using Juicebox Assembly Tools  (Dudchenko et al., bioRxiv, 2018). See Methods for more information.

Hi-C sample

The blood sample for in situ Hi-C preparation was donated by a male individual, and provided to us by SeaWorld. We thank Texas State Aquarium for additional samples for this species.

Hi-C Contact maps

Hi-C data was aligned to the draft reference using Juicer (Durand, Shamim et al., Cell Systems, 2016), and contact maps visualizing the alignments with respect to the draft and the new reference were built using 3D-DNA (Dudchenko et al., Science, 2017). The contact maps can be explored below via Juicebox.js interactive tool (Robinson et al., Cell Systems, 2018). (Please note that the interactive figures are scaled 1:2.) To explore the assembly in greater detail, please download the .hic and .assembly files from the data release folder and use Juicebox Assembly Tools  (Dudchenko et al., bioRxiv, 2018).

References

If you use this genome assembly in your research, please check that the conditions of use associated with the draft permit it, and acknowledge the following work.

Wang, Zhuo, Juan Pascual-Anaya, Amonida Zadissa, Wenqi Li, Yoshihito Niimura, Zhiyong Huang, Chunyi Li, et al. 2013. "The Draft Genomes of Soft-Shell Turtle and Green Sea Turtle Yield Insights into the Development and Evolution of the Turtle-Specific Body Plan." Nature Genetics 45 (6): 701-6. https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2615.

Dudchenko, O., Batra, S.S., Omer, A.D., Nyquist, S.K., Hoeger, M., Durand, N.C., Shamim, M.S., Machol, I., Lander, E.S., Aiden, A.P., Aiden, E.L., 2017. De novo assembly of the Aedes aegypti genome using Hi-C yields chromosome-length scaffolds. Science 356, 92–95. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal3327.

Dudchenko, O., Shamim, M.S., Batra, S., Durand, N.C., Musial, N.T., Mostofa, R., Pham, M., Hilaire, B.G.S., Yao, W., Stamenova, E., Hoeger, M., Nyquist, S.K., Korchina, V., Pletch, K., Flanagan, J.P., Tomaszewicz, A., McAloose, D., Estrada, C.P., Novak, B.J., Omer, A.D., Aiden, E.L., 2018. The Juicebox Assembly Tools module facilitates de novo assembly of mammalian genomes with chromosome-length scaffolds for under $1000. bioRxiv 254797. https://doi.org/10.1101/254797.

Disclaimer

This is a work in progress. If you notice any discrepancies in the map or have data that confirms or contradicts the suggested reference, please email us at thednazoo@gmail.com or leave a comment on the Forum.

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