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11th Annual <strong>Sequencing</strong>, Finishing, and Analysis in the Future Meeting<br />
USING NOVEL METHODS TO ASSEMBLY PLANT<br />
MITOCHONDRIAL GENOMES: AN EXAMPLE FROM<br />
THE MIMOSOID LEGUME GENUS LEUCAENA<br />
Wednesday, 1st June 18:30 La Fonda NM Room (1st floor) Poster (PS‐1a.14)<br />
Sealtiel Ortega Rodriguez, Donovan Bailey<br />
New Mexico State University<br />
Plant mitochondria host structurally complex low gene content genomes known for high rates intracellular<br />
recombination, sequence loss, and sequence acquisition. As a result of these complexities<br />
very few such genomes have been published. This is even true for the ecologically and economically<br />
important legumes, where mitochondrial genomes are available for just fives species of closely related<br />
papilionoids. To diversify the representation of available legume mitochondrial genomes, we generated<br />
a draft sequence assembly for a member of the subfamily Mimosoideae, Leucaena trichandra.<br />
Mimosoid legumes are best represented throughout the tropics, where they are often critical species<br />
in natural ecosystems while also providing nearby human populations with a variety of important<br />
resources. Using 60X PacBio sequence data with 14.5kb average read length we employed a novel<br />
iterative reference seeded approach to de novo assemble the L. trichandra mitochondrial genome<br />
data from among a complex mix of nuclear and cpDNA reads. We discuss what we have learned<br />
about this iterative assembly approach along with the preliminary mitofy annotations of the draft<br />
genome.<br />
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