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Indo-pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus)

Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin has been recognized as a separate species only in 1998: until recently all bottlenose dolphins were considered members of the single species! Read more about Indo-pacific bottlenose dolphins in Wikipedia.

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Photo by Julie Burgher [CC BY-NC 2.0], from flickr.com

Chromosome-length genome assembly

Download the ASM322739v1_HiC.fasta.gz file containing the chromosome-length (2n=44) assembly of the Indo-pacific bottlenose dolphin genome. All modifications with respect to the draft (see below) are annotated in the ASM322739v1_HiC.assembly file. Some basic stats associated with the new reference, ASM322739v1_HiC, are listed below. The full data release can be explored here.

Contig length (bp)
Number of contigs
Contig N50 (bp)
Longest contig (bp)
2,425,059,017
58,538
133,491
1,015,033
Scaffold length (bp)
Number of scaffolds
Scaffold N50 (bp)
Longest scaffold (bp)
2,505,817,531
12,471
111,961,311
186,145,090
Draft

The chromosome-length genome assembly is based on the draft assembly ASM322739v1 (GCA_003227395.1), credited below.

Vijay, Nagarjun, Chungoo Park, Jooseong Oh, Soyeong Jin, Elizabeth Kern, Hyun Woo Kim, Jianzhi Zhang, and Joong-Ki Park. 2018. "Population Genomic Analysis Reveals Contrasting Demographic Changes of Two Closely Related Dolphin Species in the Last Glacial." Molecular Biology and Evolution 35 (8): 2026-33. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msy108.

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 female individual, and provided to us by SeaWorld.

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.

Vijay, Nagarjun, Chungoo Park, Jooseong Oh, Soyeong Jin, Elizabeth Kern, Hyun Woo Kim, Jianzhi Zhang, and Joong-Ki Park. 2018. "Population Genomic Analysis Reveals Contrasting Demographic Changes of Two Closely Related Dolphin Species in the Last Glacial." Molecular Biology and Evolution 35 (8): 2026-33. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msy108.

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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