A High-Quality Genome Assembly of Striped Catfish (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus) Based on Highly Accurate Long-Read HiFi Sequencing Data

Dao Minh Hai, Duong Thuy Yen, Pham Thanh Liem, Bui Minh Tam, Do Thi Thanh Huong, Bui Thi Bich Hang, Dang Quang Hieu, Mutien Marie Garigliany, Wouter Coppieters, Patrick Kestemont, Nguyen Thanh Phuong, Frédéric Farnir

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Abstract

The HiFi sequencing technology yields highly accurate long-read data with accuracies greater than 99.9% that can be used to improve results for complex applications such as genome assembly. Our study presents a high-quality chromosome-scale genome assembly of striped catfish (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus), a commercially important species cultured mainly in Vietnam, integrating HiFi reads and Hi-C data. A 788.4 Mb genome containing 381 scaffolds with an N50 length of 21.8 Mb has been obtained from HiFi reads. These scaffolds have been further ordered and clustered into 30 chromosome groups, ranging from 1.4 to 57.6 Mb, based on Hi-C data. The present updated assembly has a contig N50 of 14.7 Mb, representing a 245-fold and 4.2-fold improvement over the previous Illumina and Illumina-Nanopore-Hi-C based version, respectively. In addition, the proportion of repeat elements and BUSCO genes identified in our genome is remarkably higher than in the two previously released striped catfish genomes. These results highlight the power of using HiFi reads to assemble the highly repetitive regions and to improve the quality of genome assembly. The updated, high-quality genome assembled in this work will provide a valuable genomic resource for future population genetics, conservation biology and selective breeding studies of striped catfish.

Original languageEnglish
Article number923
JournalGenes
Volume13
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2022

Keywords

  • chromosome-scale genome assembly
  • HiFi reads
  • selective breeding
  • striped catfish

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