Authors: Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén; Bent O. Petersen; Fernando Peñaloza; Bin Ma; Qiye Li; Sara Rocha; Brona Brejova; Jakob Vinther; Bárbara Frazão; Ângela M. Ribeiro; Erich D. Jarvis; M Ziaur Rahman; Inger E. Winkelmann; Tobias Baril; Mateus Patricio; Filipe Silva; Blagoy Blagoev; Ricardo Tafur-Jimenez; Rute R. da Fonseca; Alexandre Campos; Alexander Hayward; Hugo Osório; Graham Alexander; Tomas Vinar; Yufeng Wu; Paul P. Gardner; Carolin B Albertin; Simon Rasmussen; L. Filipe C. Castro; Chong Chu; M. Thomas P. Gilbert; Oleg Simakov; Guojie Zhang; Henk-Jan T. Hoving; Francesco Musacchia; Jan M. Strugnell; Alvarina Couto; André M. Machado; Remo Sanges; Rasmus Nielsen; Davide Pisani; Agostinho Antunes; Olivier Fedrigo; Inigo Barrio-Hernandez

Venue: GigaScience

Type: Publication

Abstract: ABSTRACT Background The giant squid (Architeuthis dux; Steenstrup, 1857) is an enigmatic giant mollusc with a circumglobal distribution in the deep ocean, except in the high Arctic and Antarctic waters. The elusiveness of the species makes it difficult to study. Thus, having a genome assembled for this deep-sea–dwelling species will allow several pending evolutionary questions to be unlocked. Findings We present a draft genome assembly that includes 200 Gb of Illumina reads, 4 Gb of Moleculo synthetic long reads, and 108 Gb of Chicago librari... (read more)

DOI: 10.1093/gigascience/giz152