Publication Date:
2015-11-07
Description:
Dinoflagellates are important components of marine ecosystems and essential coral symbionts, yet little is known about their genomes. We report here on the analysis of a high-quality assembly from the 1180-megabase genome of Symbiodinium kawagutii. We annotated protein-coding genes and identified Symbiodinium-specific gene families. No whole-genome duplication was observed, but instead we found active (retro)transposition and gene family expansion, especially in processes important for successful symbiosis with corals. We also documented genes potentially governing sexual reproduction and cyst formation, novel promoter elements, and a microRNA system potentially regulating gene expression in both symbiont and coral. We found biochemical complementarity between genomes of S. kawagutii and the anthozoan Acropora, indicative of host-symbiont coevolution, providing a resource for studying the molecular basis and evolution of coral symbiosis.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lin, Senjie -- Cheng, Shifeng -- Song, Bo -- Zhong, Xiao -- Lin, Xin -- Li, Wujiao -- Li, Ling -- Zhang, Yaqun -- Zhang, Huan -- Ji, Zhiliang -- Cai, Meichun -- Zhuang, Yunyun -- Shi, Xinguo -- Lin, Lingxiao -- Wang, Lu -- Wang, Zhaobao -- Liu, Xin -- Yu, Sheng -- Zeng, Peng -- Hao, Han -- Zou, Quan -- Chen, Chengxuan -- Li, Yanjun -- Wang, Ying -- Xu, Chunyan -- Meng, Shanshan -- Xu, Xun -- Wang, Jun -- Yang, Huanming -- Campbell, David A -- Sturm, Nancy R -- Dagenais-Bellefeuille, Steve -- Morse, David -- AI056034/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI073806/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2015 Nov 6;350(6261):691-4. doi: 10.1126/science.aad0408.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science and Marine Biodiversity and Global Change Research Center, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361101, China. Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT 06340, USA. senjie.lin@uconn.edu. ; Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI)-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518083, China. Hong Kong University (HKU)-BGI Bioinformatics Algorithms and Core Technology Research Laboratory, The Computer Science Department, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China. ; Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI)-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518083, China. ; State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science and Marine Biodiversity and Global Change Research Center, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361101, China. ; Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT 06340, USA. ; State Key Laboratory of Stress Cell Biology, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361101, China. ; Bioinformatics Institute, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore. ; Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI)-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518083, China. Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, DK-2200 Copenhagen, Denmark. Princess Al Jawhara Center of Excellence in the Research of Hereditary Disorders, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. ; Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI)-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518083, China. Princess Al Jawhara Center of Excellence in the Research of Hereditary Disorders, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. James D. Watson Institute of Genome Science, Hangzhou, China. ; Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. ; Institut de Recherche en Biologie Vegetale, Departement de Sciences Biologiques, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26542574" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Anthozoa/*physiology
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Biological Evolution
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*Coral Reefs
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Dinoflagellida/*genetics
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*Gene Expression Regulation
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Gene Targeting
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*Genome, Protozoan
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MicroRNAs/genetics
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Symbiosis/*genetics
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
