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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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