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UseofMultipleSequencingTechnologiesToProduceaHigh-Quality GenomeoftheFungus Pseudogymnoascusdestructans ,theCausative AgentofBatWhite-NoseSyndrome KevinP.Drees,a JonathanM.Palmer,bRobertSebra,cJeffreyM.Lorch,dCynthiaChen,eCheng-CangWu,eJinWooBok,fNancyP.Keller,fDavidS.Blehert,d ChristinaA.Cuomo,gDanielL.Lindner,b JeffreyT.FosteraDepartmentofMolecular,CellularandBiomedicalSciences,UniversityofNewHampshire,Durham,NewHampshire,USAa;CenterforForestMycologyResearch, NorthernResearchStation,U.S.ForestService,Madison,Wisconsin,USAb;DepartmentofGeneticsandGenomicSciencesandIcahnInstituteforGenomicsandMultiscale Biology,IcahnSchoolofMedicineatMountSinai,NewYork,USAc;U.S.GeologicalSurvey,NationalWildlifeHealthCenter,Madison,Wisconsin,USAd;IntactGenomics, SaintLouis,Missouri,USAe;DepartmentofBacteriologyandDepartmentofMedicalMicrobiologyandImmunology,UniversityofWisconsin,Madison,Wisconsin,USAf; GenomeSequencingandAnalysisProgram,BroadInstituteofMITandHarvard,Cambridge,Massachusetts,USAgWhite-nosesyndromehasrecentlyemergedasoneofthemostdevastatingwildlifediseasesrecorded,causingwidespreadmortalityinnumerousbatspeciesthroughouteasternNorthAmerica.Here,wepresentanimprovedreferencegenomeofthefungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascusdestructans foruseincomparativegenomicstudies. Received 11April2016 Accepted 18May2016 Published 30June2016 Citation DreesKP,PalmerJM,SebraR,LorchJM,ChenC,WuC-C,BokJW,KellerNP,BlehertDS,CuomoCA,LindnerDL,FosterJT.2016.Useofmultiplesequencing technologiestoproduceahigh-qualitygenomeofthefungus Pseudogymnoascusdestructans ,thecausativeagentofbatwhite-nosesyndrome.GenomeAnnounc4(3): e00445-16.doi:10.1128/genomeA.00445-16. Copyright ©2016Dreesetal.Thisisanopen-accessarticledistributedunderthetermsofthe CreativeCommonsAttribution4.0Internationallicense . AddresscorrespondencetoJeffreyT.Foster,jeff.foster@unh.edu. S inceemergingin2006,white-nosesyndromehasrapidly spreadacrosseasternNorthAmericafromanindexsitein NewYork,causingthemortalityofmillionsofbatsofnumerous species( 1 ).ThepathogenwasidentiÞedas Pseudogymnoascusdestructans ( 2 , 3 ),apsychrophilicfungusthatinfectsbatsduring hibernation,whenbatbodytemperaturesdecreasetotheambient temperatureoftheirhibernacula( 4 ).Thegrowthofthisfunguson batsandsubsequentinvasionofepidermaltissuescancausea cascadeofdeleteriousphysiologicalchangesresultinginhigh mortalityrates( 5 , 6 ).ThefungusiswidespreadinEurasia( 7Ã9 ), andinitialgeneticandexperimentalresultssuggestthatitwas recentlyintroducedtoNorthAmerica( 10 , 11 ).Criticallymissing, however,aredetailedgenomicanalysesof P.destructans toshed lightontheorigins,evolution,globaldispersal,andpathogenicity ofthisfungus. Initialgenomesequencingeffortsfor P.destructans used454and Illuminaplatforms;however,unresolvedrepeatregionsinthegenomeresultedinfragmenteddraftassemblies( 12 ).Therefore,togenerateahigh-qualitycontiguousassemblyofthe P.destructans genome,weutilizedacombinationofdatafromPacBioSMRTreads, IlluminaMiSeq250-bppaired-endreads(SRR1952982),8-kb454 "jumping"libraries(SRP001346),andendsequencesfromanunbiasedrandomshearbacterialartiÞcialchromosome(BAC)library withanaverageinsertsizeof100kb( 13 ). ThePacBioreadswereassembledwiththePacBioSMRTversion2.2analysispipeline( 14 )andyielded153contigs.UsingIllumina250-bppaired-endMiSeqreadsquality-trimmedtoQ30 withea-utilsversion1.1.2( 15 )anderror-correctedwithHammer ( 16 ),4548-kbjumpingreads,and 100-kbBAClibraryendsequences,thecontigswereextendedandscaffoldedwithSSPACE version3.0( 17 );gapswereremovedwithGapFillerversion1.10 ( 18 ).TwentyiterationsofSSPACE/GapFillerwerefollowedby Pilonversion1.8( 19 )tocorrectlocalmisalignmentsandindels fromtheassembly,resultingin96scaffolds.Aself-queryofthe improvedscaffoldswiththeNUCmerapplicationofMUMmer version3.23( 20 )indicatedthatthesmallerscaffolds( 42,633bp) andafewlarger scaffoldswerecompleteornearlycompleteduplicationsofthesequenceinotherscaffolds.Thirteenscaffolds,which hada 95%identityover95%oftheirlengthwithalargerscaffoldin theassembly,wereremoved.TheÞnalassemblycontains83scaffolds, is35.818201Mbinsize,hasan N50valueof1.168637Mb,andcontainsonly7,812bpofgaps.ThisisasigniÞcantimprovementcomparedtopreviousdraftassembliesof P.destructans (AEFC01:1,847 scaffolds,30.6849Mb, N50105.158kb,2,328,879bpNs;AYKP01: 5,304scaffolds,30.2827Mb, N5017.914kb,0Ns). Thenew P.destructans genomecontains38.17%repetitivesequenceelements(RepeatModelerversion1.08,RepeatMasker version4.05, http://www.repeatmasker.org ),whichrequireda combinationoflong-readandlarge-insertsequencingtechnologiestoscaffold.Thenearlycompleteassemblypresentedhere shouldserveasavaluableresourcetofacilitatefungaldiseaseresearch. Nucleotidesequenceaccessionnumbers. Thiswhole-genome shotgunprojecthasbeendepositedinDDBJ/ENA/GenBankundertheaccessionnumber LAJJ00000000 .Theversiondescribedin thispaperistheÞrstversion,LAJJ01000000.ACKNOWLEDGMENTSWewouldliketothankKatyPariseforpreparingtheDNAsequencedin thisstudy.Useoftrade,product,orÞrmnamesisfordescriptivepurposes onlyanddoesnotimplyendorsementbytheU.S.Government. crossmark GenomeAnnouncements May/June2016Volume4Issue3e00445-16 genomea.asm.org 1
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