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The complete mitochondrial and plastid genomes of the invasive marine red alga Caulacanthus okamurae (Caulacanthaceae, Rhodophyta) from Moss Landing, California, USA
Caulacanthus okamurae is an invasive red alga that forms extensive mats in sheltered marine habitats around the world. To determine its genomic structure and genetic relationship to native and other non-native populations of C. okamurae, high-throughput sequencing analysis was performed on an introduced specimen from Bennett Slough, Moss Landing, California, USA. Assembly of 23,146,595 filtered 150 bp paired-end Illumina sequencing reads yielded its complete mitogenome (GenBank accession MT193839) and plastid genome (GenBank accession MT193838). The mitogenome is 25,995 bp in length and contains 50 genes. The plastid genome is 173,516 bp and contains 234 genes. Comparison of the organellar chromosomes to other Gigartinales revealed a high-level of gene synteny. BLAST analysis of marker sequences (rbcL, cox1, cox2) of C. okamurae from Moss Landing identified four identical DNA sequences: one from a specimen from a native population of C. okamurae from South Korea and three from specimens representing invasive populations from France, Spain, and the USA. These genetic results confirm the presence of C. okamurae in central California, USA, and represent the first complete mitogenome and plastid genome from the Caulacanthaceae.
| Artifact type: | Research note |
| Comments: | 3 pages. Republished from Mitochondrial DNA Part B 5(3):2067–2069 (2020) under CC BY 4.0; not submitted to CCCURJ |
| Subjects: | Genomics (q-bio.GN); Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE) |
| Journal reference: | Mitochondrial DNA Part B 5(3):2067–2069 (2020) |
| Cite as: | the original, https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2020.1763870 |
| Related DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2020.1763870 |
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@misc{group2020complete,
title={The complete mitochondrial and plastid genomes of the invasive marine red alga Caulacanthus okamurae (Caulacanthaceae, Rhodophyta) from Moss Landing, California, USA},
author={Hartnell College Genomics Group and Alejandro Aguilar and Tania J Ahumada and Noemi Amezcua Moreno and Jacob Bohn and Danilo E Bustamante and Martha S Calderon and Edgar Cardoso and Rocio Carranza and Maria Castillo and Elizabeth Cazares and Emmanuel Cazares and Janelle K Companion and Jeanette Cruz and Neovid Cuevas and Lizbeth De La Torre and Daniel P Dietz and Kathleen M Fernando and Bryan Garcia and Pamela Gomez and Bianca Gonzales-Miramontes and Yuviana Hernandez and Kayla Huaracha and Jeffery R Hughey and Gabriela Lazaro and Feifei Zhai Lorenzo and Diana Medrano and Ailen Mendoza and Daniel Mendoza and Adam Mohssin and Jeanette Orozco Medina and Aislinn Pacheco and Gustavo Palacios Ruvalcaba and Jankiben Patel and Jatin Patel and Samantha Patino and Karina Perez-Alfaro and Alejandra N Ponce and Jasmine G Poso and Gabriel Ramirez and Hector A Ramirez and Nathalie Resendiz and Rachelle Reyno and Diego Rodriguez and Ian A Russell and Paola Saenz-Verdugo and Angel S Carmona and Fabian Sanchez and Sabrina X Sheffer and Carmen Solorio and Alejandra Soto Trujillo and Geraldine S Vasaya and Victoria Velasquez Lopez},
year={2020},
howpublished={Mitochondrial DNA Part B 5(3):2067–2069 (2020)},
doi={10.1080/23802359.2020.1763870},
url={https://doi.org/10.1080/23802359.2020.1763870},
}