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11th Annual <strong>Sequencing</strong>, Finishing, and Analysis in the Future Meeting<br />
A DRAFT GENOME OF THE RESURRECTION<br />
LYCOPHYTE SELAGINELLA ARIZONICA<br />
SELAGINELLACEAE<br />
Wednesday, 1st June 18:30 La Fonda NM Room (1st floor) Poster (PS‐1a.22)<br />
Anthony Baniaga,. ThiruvaranganRamaraj 2 , Tara Hall 1 . Nils Arrigo 3 , Michael Barker 1<br />
1 University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 2 National Center for<br />
Genome Resources (NCGR), 3 University of Lausanne, Department of Ecology & Evolution<br />
Selaginella spp. Selaginellaceae have the potential to become an interesting model system to understand<br />
local adaptation and the evolutionary genetics associated with whole genome duplication and<br />
hybridization. They possess some of the smallest known genomes (1Cx = 81‐182 Mbp) of all vascular<br />
land plants, and have drought‐resistant resurrection phenotypes that permit survival for months in<br />
a desiccated dormant state and the ability to return to full photosynthetic capacity following soil<br />
moisture availability. With interest in the ecological and evolutionary importance of their resurrection<br />
phenotypes, and taking advantage of the small genome sizes in Selaginella, we generated high<br />
coverage PacBio (~80x), and paired‐end and mate‐pair Illumina libraries (~140x). We then performed<br />
a hybrid PacBio‐Illumina assembly to generate a de novo assembly for the resurrection fern<br />
Selaginella arizonica. We present our de novo draft genome of S. arizonica and highlight genomic<br />
attributes associated with the resurrection phenotype.<br />
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