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11th Annual <strong>Sequencing</strong>, Finishing, and Analysis in the Future Meeting<br />
ANALYSIS OF MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME ISOFORMS<br />
IN LETTUCE<br />
Wednesday, 1st June 20:00 La Fonda Mezzanine (2nd Floor) Poster (PS‐2b.09)<br />
Alexander Kozik, Jie Li, Dean Lavelle, Sebastian Reyes Chin Wo, Richard Michelmore<br />
Genome Center, University of California, Davis, CA<br />
Mitochondria are integral organelles of most eukaryotic cells that have distinct genomes from the<br />
main nuclear one. Plant mitochondrial genomes are much larger than mitochondrial genomes of<br />
animals and fungi. Frequently, plant mitochondrial genomes also possess fragments of chloroplast<br />
genomes. Interchange between mitochondrial and nuclear genome segments are common phenomena<br />
in plants. Moreover, mitochondrial genome of a particular plant species may consist of several<br />
structural isoforms that coexist simultaneously. These isoforms are represented by the shuffling of<br />
large basic DNA sequence blocks separated by short repeats. The complexity of plant mitochondrial<br />
genomes consequently makes determining their sequence and structure challenging. There are fewer<br />
annotated plant mitochondrial genomes at NCBI GenBank than completed animal mitochondrial<br />
sequences. Only approximately 100 mitochondrial genomes are available for vascular plant species<br />
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/browse/?report=5. As a part of Lettuce Genome <strong>Sequencing</strong><br />
Project https://lgr.genomecenter.ucdavis.edu/ we have assembled and characterized the lettuce<br />
mitochondrial genome. We extracted mitochondrial components from the Illumina and PacBio<br />
libraries used to assemble the lettuce nuclear genome and assembled them into a complete<br />
mitochondrial genome using a multistep approach. Initial assembly with CLC Genomics Workbench,<br />
Velvet, and FALCON generated multiple contigs that appeared to be the basic building blocks of<br />
several isoforms. The contact frequency for contig terminals with Illumina mate libraries, and contig<br />
bridging with PacBio reads were used to assemble the contigs into circular graphs. The total unique<br />
sequence of the lettuce mitochondrial genome is ~ 300 Kb. Multiple circular isoforms of the lettuce<br />
mitochondrial genome were identified and annotated.<br />
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