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Near-complete genome assembly and annotation of the yellow drum (Nibea albiflora) provide insights into population and evolutionary characteristics of this species.

Zhaofang Han1, Wanbo Li1, Wen Zhu1, Sha Sun1, Kun Ye1, Yangjie Xie1, Zhiyong Wang1,2.   

Abstract

Yellow drum (Nibea albiflora) is an important fish species in capture fishery and aquaculture in East Asia. We herein report the first and near-complete genome assembly of an ultra-homologous gynogenic female yellow drum using Illumina short sequencing reads. In summary, a total of 154.2 Gb of raw reads were generated via whole-genome sequencing and were assembled to 565.3 Mb genome with a contig N50 size of 50.3 kb and scaffold N50 size of 2.2 Mb (BUSCO completeness of 97.7%), accounting for 97.3%-98.6% of the estimated genome size of this fish. We further identified 22,448 genes using combined methods of ab initio prediction, RNAseq annotation, and protein homology searching, of which 21,614 (96.3%) were functionally annotated in NCBI nr, trEMBL, SwissProt, and KOG databases. We also investigated the nucleotide diversity (around 1/390) of aquacultured individuals and found the genetic diversity of the aquacultured population decreased due to inbreeding. Evolutionary analyses illustrated significantly expanded and extracted gene families, such as myosin and sodium: neurotransmitter symporter (SNF), could help explain swimming motility of yellow drum. The presented genome will be an important resource for future studies on population genetics, conservation, understanding of evolutionary history and genetic breeding of the yellow drum and other Nibea species.

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Keywords:  annotation; genome assembly; nucleotide diversity; yellow drum (Nibea albiflora)

Year:  2018        PMID: 30680137      PMCID: PMC6342179          DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4778

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Ecol Evol        ISSN: 2045-7758            Impact factor:   2.912


INTRODUCTION

Yellow drum (Nibea albiflora; Figure 1) belongs to the Sciaenidae, one of the largest family of the Perciforms, and is naturally distributed in southern Japan and East China Sea (Takita, 1974; Xu et al., 2017). The yellow drum can grow to ~44 cm in length and ~1.5 kg in weight (Shunpei & Kazuo, 1980), reaching sex maturity at age of 2 ~ 3 years. It inhabits preferentially in coastal waters with depth of 70 ~ 80 meters and has seasonal migratory patterns. Yellow drum, together with large yellow croaker (Larimichthys crocea, another species in the Sciaenidae family ranking first in annual production among all marine fish aquaculture in China (Guo and Zhao, 2017)), account for an important part of sea food consumption in China, especially in east China. Yellow drum shares similar external characteristics, meat quality and flavors with large yellow croaker. Now, yellow drum is expected to partially replace the market of the large yellow croaker, which suffers from the shortage of germplasm resource due to overfishing and severe bacterial and virus diseases in aquaculture (Chen, Lin, & Wang, 2003; Han et al., 2016). Recently, the wild population of the yellow drum is declining due to overfishing and aquaculture of this fish is expanding to meet market needs (Cheng, Xu, Jin, & Wang, 2011). It is worthwhile to conduct researches on wild population conservation and genetic improvement of this fish. The genus Nibea consists of eleven recognized species, widely distributed in the Indo‐West Pacific oceans (Lo et al., 2015; Lo, Liu, Nor, & Chen, 2017). Up to date, no reference genome for the Nibea species is present, hampering the studies on conservation and genetic investigation of these species.
Figure 1

The yellow drum (Nibea albiflora). The picture of the yellow drum was provided by Shuqiu Xie (Mindong Fishery Research Institute of Fujian Province)

The yellow drum (Nibea albiflora). The picture of the yellow drum was provided by Shuqiu Xie (Mindong Fishery Research Institute of Fujian Province) In the present study, we took efforts to assemble the first and near‐complete reference genome of an ultra‐homologous gynogenic female yellow drum using Illumina short sequencing reads. Based on the assembled genome, the genome‐wide nucleotide diversity of cultured yellow drum has been investigated, which can reflect the degree of inbreeding of aquaculture populations. Besides, the phylogenetic relationships of yellow drum with other teleosts were previously described (Lo et al., 2015, 2017); however, there is not a study conducted so far for phylogenetic analysis based on whole‐genome data, and we thus inferred the phylogeny with the yellow drum and other teleosts. And analysis of expanded and contracted gene families can aid to investigate the evolution of specific characteristics of this fish. In conclusion, the near‐complete reference genome of the yellow drum we provided laid a solid foundation for the conservation, evolutionary studies, and genetic improvement of this species.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Sample, library construction, and sequencing

An ultra‐homozygous female yellow drum homozygous at 11 highly polymorphic microsatellite loci (Supporting Information Table S1) was produced through two generations of gynogenesis in a mariculture farm in Ningde, Fujian province, China. Genomic DNA was extracted from its muscle tissue using the traditional phenolchloroform isolation method (Sambrook & Russell, 2006). DNA concentration was measured using Qubit 2.0 Fluorometer (Life Technologies, CA, USA). During the whole‐genome shotgun sequencing, four paired‐end libraries (two with insert sizes of 300 bp and two with insert sizes 450 bp) were constructed using the Illumina TruSeq Nano method (Illumina, CA, USA). Three mate‐pair libraries with long‐insert sizes of 2 kb, 5 kb, and 10 kb were generated using the Nextera Mate Pair Sample Preparation Kit (Illumina, CA, USA). In brief, 4 μg of genomic DNA was fragmented and tagged with biotinylated mate‐pair junction adapters. Subsequently, the strand displacement reaction was performed and the DNA was purified with AMPure XP beads. The 2 kb, 5 kb, and 10 kb DNA fragments were selected using a 0.75% cassette for the BluePippin (Sage Science, MA, USA). DNA was recovered and ligated overnight at 30°C following the manufacturer's protocol. After incubation and heat inactivation, exonuclease was added to remove non‐circularized DNA. The samples were subsequently end repaired, A‐tailed, and adapter ligated, and enrichment was achieved with 10 rounds of PCR. All prepared libraries were sequenced (150 bp × 2) on a HiSeq X platform (Illumina, USA) at Novogene Bioinformatics Technology Co., Ltd (Beijing, China). For quality control, FASTQC (Andrews, 2013) was used to check quality of the raw reads; Trimmomatic (Bolger, Lohse, & Usadel, 2014) was employed to trim the adapter sequences and to remove low‐quality bases (Phred score <20) of the paired‐end reads, and reads shorter than 50 bp were discarded. All reads from mate‐pair libraries were trimmed to a length of 50 bp to avoid potentially spanning the junctions of the DNA circularization.

Genome assembly and evaluation

Platanus v1.2.4 (Kajitani et al., 2014) was employed to assemble the genome sequence of N. albiflora through three steps: contig assembling, scaffold construction, and gap closing. Although Platanus was originally developed for assembling highly heterozygous genomes, it is also with better performance in constructing super large scaffolds compared to other assemblers, irrespective of heterozygosity of the genomes (Kajitani et al., 2014). First, all the paired‐end sequencing data with short inserts were used to construct de Bruijn graphs with automatically optimized k‐mer sizes. Then, the mate‐pair sequencing reads were used to link contigs into scaffolds. At gap‐closing step, all sequencing reads were utilized to fill intra‐scaffold gaps using paired‐end information, where one end of a pair uniquely mapped to a scaffold and the other end located within a gap. The quality of the assembled genome was evaluated as follows: (a) The sequencing reads with short inserts (300 bp and 450 bp) were realigned to the assembled genome using BWA v0.7.17 (Li & Durbin, 2009). (b) RNAseq data of a pool of multiple tissues were aligned to the genome assembly using STAR v2.5.3a (Dobin et al., 2013). (c) BUSCO (Benchmarking Universal Single‐Copy Orthologs) v3.0 (Simao, Waterhouse, Ioannidis, Kriventseva, & Zdobnov, 2015) was employed to assess the completeness of the assembly using database of actinopterygii_odb9.

Repeat‐content identification and classification

To identify known repeats and transposable elements (TEs), RepeatMasker v4.0.6 (Smit, Hubley, & Green, 2013–2015) was used to align the genome assembly against the Repbase TE library with the default parameters (Jurka et al., 2005). In addition, a de novo repeat library was constructed using RepeatModeler v1.0.4 (Smit & Hubley, 2008–2015) with the genomic sequences of N. albiflora. The RepeatMasker was employed again to identify repeat elements using the de novo repeat library. The repeat elements identified from Repbase library and de novo library were merged together and masked for further analysis.

Gene prediction and annotation

The repeat‐masked genome was utilized to predict gene structures through ab initio gene prediction, protein homology‐based prediction, and transcript evidence. Augustus v3.2.3 (Stanke, Diekhans, Baertsch, & Haussler, 2008), GeneMark‐ET v4.32 (Lomsadze, Burns, & Borodovsky, 2014), and Braker v1.9 (Hoff, Lange, Lomsadze, Borodovsky, & Stanke, 2016) were applied for the ab initio gene prediction. For Augustus v3.2.3 (Stanke et al., 2008), the known gene structures of zebrafish and the RNAseq assembled transcripts (Han, Xiao, Li, Ye, & Wang, 2018) were used in model parameter training, and the optimum parameters were obtained after two rounds of training. The homology‐based gene prediction was done by aligning protein sequences of Homo sapiens (human), Danio rerio (zebrafish), Takifugu rubripe (pufferfish), Oryzias latipes (medaka), Gasterosteus aculeatus (three‐spined stickleback), Larimichthys crocea (large yellow croaker), and Dicentrarchus labrax (European seabass) to the N. albiflora genome assembly using tblastn (E‐value: 1e−5) (Altschul et al., 1997). Aligned sequences were submitted to Exonerate v2.2.0 (Slater & Birney, 2005) for defining precise splicing sites and exons. In addition, transcripts assembled from RNAseq, which was sequenced on an Illumina HiSeq 2,500 platform (2 × 125 bp) with pooled library of 11 tissues (Han et al., 2018), were employed to build comprehensive transcripts database and identify open reading frame (ORF) using PASA v2.1.0 program (Haas et al., 2003). After removing the genes with coding region length shorter than 150 bp, a consensus gene set was created from the genes of the three different sources using EVM (Evidence Modeler) v1.1.1 (Haas et al., 2008). All predicted genes were then aligned to NCBI nr, trEMBL, SwissProt, and KOG databases for function annotation using blastx (E‐value: 1e−5) (Camacho et al., 2009).

Calculation of nucleotide diversity

The nucleotide diversity of yellow drum was measured using four randomly sampled fish (two males and two females) from the aquaculture populations in Fujian Province in 2016. DNA was extracted from dorsal fins of the four fish using TIANamp Genomic DNA Kit (TIANGEN, Beijing, China). And paired‐end sequences (150 bp × 2) were generated on an Illumina HiSeq X platform. The resequencing data of the four individuals were sequenced at 32.8 ~ 38.4 × coverage and were aligned to the genome assembly of the yellow drum using BWA v0.7.17 (Li & Durbin, 2009). Duplicated reads were subsequently removed, and aligned reads around insertions/deletions (Indels) were realigned using GATK v3.8.0 (Mckenna et al., 2010). Platypus v0.8.1 (Rimmer et al., 2014) was utilized to call SNPs and small Indels (≤10 bp) on the refined bam files. Nucleotide diversity was calculated by counting the frequency of heterozygous sites in high‐quality variants (genotype quality > 60 and 10 < depth < 100) in each individual.

Phylogeny and gene family comparison

The protein sequences of 11 species, including Homo sapiens (human), Gallus gallus (chicken), Lepisosteus oculatus (spotted gar), Tetraodon nigroviridis (spotted green pufferfish), Xiphophorus maculatus (platyfish), Oreochromis niloticus (tilapia), D. rerio (zebrafish), T. rubripe (pufferfish), O. latipes (medaka), G. aculeatus (three‐spined stickleback), and L. crocea (large yellow croaker), were obtained from Ensembl. The longest sequences extracted from each gene were aligned with each other among the 12 species using ClustalW v2.0 (Larkin et al., 2007). Based on the alignment information, the OrthoMCL v2.0.9 (Li, Stoeckert, & Roos, 2003) was employed to obtain pairs of one‐to‐one protein‐coding orthologs, and the orthologs were used to construct the phylogenetic tree using maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) method with MEGA7 (Kumar, Stecher, & Tamura, 2016). The divergence time for N. albiflora and other vertebrates was estimated based on the time‐calibrated divergence between human and chicken (320 million years ago (MYA), obtained from the TimeTree database (Hedges, Dudley, & Kumar, 2006)). In gene family analysis, protein sequences coded by the longest isoform of each gene from all the 12 species were aligned to each other exhaustively using blastp (E‐value: 1e−5). Based on the alignments, gene clustering and gene copy number of a certain gene family within each species were obtained using OrthoMCL v2.0.9 (Li et al., 2003). And node time was estimated via r8s software (Sanderson, 2003). Finally, gene family expansion and contraction analyses were conducted by CAFÉ (Bie, Cristianini, Demuth, & Hahn, 2006).

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Genome size estimation and assembling

We generated a total of 154.2 Gb of raw data (~260 × coverage) for the gynogenetic yellow drum on an Illumina HiSeq X platform. After quality trimming and filtering, we retained 119.8 Gb data for genome assembling (Table 1). A subset of the cleaned sequencing reads of 300 bp insert library (~29.2 Gb) was used to obtain a frequency distribution of 17‐, 21‐, 25‐, and 29‐mers of the yellow drum genome through Jellyfish v2.4.0 (Marcais & Kingsford, 2011) (Supporting Information Figure S1). The resulting histograms were explored to estimate the size, repeat content, and heterozygosity of the yellow drum genome via the GenomeScope software (Vurture et al., 2017). The estimated genome size of the yellow drum was between 573.2 Mb (17‐mers) and 581.0 Mb (29‐mers) (Supporting Information Table S2). The results were consistent with the estimated genome size (595.7 Mb) using flow cytometry (Cao, Zheng, Wang, Liu, & Cai, 2015). The 29‐mer analysis indicates that the yellow drum genome possesses a low level of repeat content (45.6 Mb, 7.9%).
Table 1

Summary statistics of the whole‐genome sequencing data

LibraryLibrary typeInsert size (bp)Reads numberTotal base (bp)Reads number after trimmingTotal bases after trimming (bp)
DES00946Paired‐end300214,014,34432,102,151,600213,149,50631,435,660,732
DES00947Paired‐end300175,073,34626,261,001,900174,401,30825,728,984,413
DES00948Paired‐end450158,969,12223,845,368,300157,188,70222,982,429,030
DES00949Paired‐end450166,828,96025,024,344,000164,607,36424,031,348,725
DEL00758Mate‐pair2,000104,631,76815,694,765,200103,664,5485,231,588,400
DEL00757Mate‐pair5,000116,137,92817,420,689,200114,947,4545,806,896,400
DEL00775Mate‐pair10,00091,955,96013,793,394,00090,954,3044,597,798,000
Summary statistics of the whole‐genome sequencing data As shown in Figure 2, all the paired‐end reads were first assembled into contigs with N50 of 5.2 kb. Then, scaffolding was conducted using the mate‐pair reads to link contigs into 75,113 scaffolds. And the contig N50 reached 14.4 kb, and the scaffold N50 was 2.1 Mb. Finally, the gap closing increased the contig N50 to 50.3 kb, and the scaffold (>2 kb) N50 was 2.2 Mb (Table 2). The final assembled genome of the N. albiflora is 565.3 Mb in length with 1,252 scaffolds, which accounts for 97.3%–98.6% of the k‐mer estimated genome size and hence indicates a near‐complete genome assembly.
Figure 2

The flow chart depicting the whole‐genome sequencing, assembly, and annotation

Table 2

Summary statistics of the Nibea albiflora genome assembly

AssemblyContigScaffold
Size (bp)557,190,737565,299,463
GC content (%)42.441.8
Number25,1821,252
N50 size (bp)50,3002,254,189
Shortest (bp)3012,002
Longest (bp)641,16813,214,368
Average length (bp)22,127451,517
N bases (bp)08,026,962
The flow chart depicting the whole‐genome sequencing, assembly, and annotation Summary statistics of the Nibea albiflora genome assembly Different methods were used to evaluate the quality of our assembled genome. Libraries of paired‐end sequencing data of 300 bp and 450 bp were realigned to the assembly, total mapping rates were 99.4% and 99.3%, and mapping ratios of properly paired reads were 95.4% and 91.2%, respectively. We further aligned transcriptomic data to the assembly, demonstrating a mapping ratio of 92.2%. The gene completeness assessment shows that 4,478 (97.7%) among 4,584 Benchmarking Universal Single‐Copy Orthologs (BUSCOs) were completely detected by BUSCO annotation, including 4,362 complete and single‐copy, 116 complete and duplicated, 39 fragmented, and 67 missing orthologs (Supporting Information Table S3). The assessment analyses again suggested that the genome assembly of the yellow drum was sufficiently accurate and near complete.

Repeat sequences in the yellow drum

Structure‐based searching with Repbase identified 813,598 repeat elements in the yellow drum, which constituted approximately 78.1 Mb (13.8%) of the assembled genomes. And the dominant type is simple repeat elements, accounting for 2.8% of the yellow drum genome (Table 3). The proportion of repeated elements in the yellow drum was much lower than those found for other teleosts, such as medaka (Kasahara et al., 2007) (17.5% of 700 Mb), large yellow croaker (Ao et al., 2015) (18.1% of 728 Mb), and Atlantic cod (Star et al., 2011) (25.4% of 830 Mb), which might be one of the reasons that the yellow drum owns a smaller‐size genome than those species.
Table 3

Summary of repeat elements identified in the Nibea albiflora genome

Repeat elementFragmentsTotal length (bp)% of genome
SINE20,6502,761,0490.5
LINE40,8577,549,4481.3
LTR element16,2783,870,9650.7
DNA element84,44312,838,6722.2
RC element4,5041,205,5960.2
Small RNA1,578127,3710.02
Simple repeat380,03315,842,1552.8
Low complexity40,1612,123,2270.4
Unclassified225,09431,820,7935.5
Total813,59878,139,27613.7
Summary of repeat elements identified in the Nibea albiflora genome

Functional annotation of predicted gene

Based on integrated methods of ab initio prediction, protein‐based homology and transcript evidence, we obtained a final gene set containing 22,448 genes with an average gene length of 12,764 bp, coding sequence length of 1,844 bp, and an average of 13.4 exons per gene (Table 4). In more detail, 21,587, 21,092, 20,054, and 19,859 genes were annotated in nr, trEMBL, SwissProt, and KOG, respectively. A total of 21,614 (96.3%) genes obtained at least one hit in the four databases. The predicted genes and annotation rates were comparable to same family species such as large yellow croaker (Ao et al., 2015) (25,401 annotated genes), medaka (Kasahara et al., 2007) (20,141 non‐redundant genes), and Atlantic cod (Star et al., 2011) (22,154 protein‐coding genes).
Table 4

Summary statistics for gene prediction for Nibea albiflora genome

Gene numberAverage gene length (bp)Average CDS length (bp)Average exons per gene
De novoAugustus25,71811,1211,75412.8
GeneMark‐ET59,0673,2777675.4
Braker27,33110,7001,69912.2
Homolog Homo sapiens 51,67116,5899366.2
Danio rerio 33,86417,4621,2417.6
Takifugu rubripe 45,54519,4851,55710.0
Oryzias latipes 21,87313,3361,2878.1
Gasterosteus aculeatus 25,18513,0591,3428.7
Larimichthys crocea 23,82515,0241,6199.3
Dicentrarchus labrax 23,81514,5201,4778.4
TranscriptomePASA6,7469,8261,58915.4
MergeEvidence Modeler22,44812,7641,84413.4
Summary statistics for gene prediction for Nibea albiflora genome

Nucleotide diversity of aquacultured yellow drum

Yellow drum aquaculture has existed for more than 20 years in east China. To get an idea of the population diversity of the aquacultured yellow drum, we measured the nucleotide diversity of four individuals randomly sampled from the aquaculture populations. As a result, the average nucleotide diversity of the four individuals was 0.26% (~1/390; range: 0.23%–0.27%), which was comparable to or even higher than that of wild populations of the previously reported marine fish (1/309 in herring (Barrio et al., 2016), 1/435 in coelacanth (Amemiya et al., 2013), 1/500 in cod (Star et al., 2011), and 1/700 in stickleback (Jones et al., 2012)). This indicates that the current aquaculture population of the yellow drum could be still genetically diverse. During 2004–2005, the nucleotide diversity of the wild‐caught yellow drum was estimated using 33 polymorphic SNPs from three locations along the coastal regions of the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea, and it ranged from 0.30% to 1.16% (Qingdao), from 0.33% to 1.27% (Zhoushan), and from 0.42% to 1.56% (Xiamen), respectively (Han, Gao, Yanagimoto, & Sakurai, 2008). The nucleotide diversity in wild population is much higher than that found in this study, suggesting the aquaculture population might have suffered from inbreeding.

Phylogenetic analysis and gene family

To determine the evolutionary position of N. albiflora, we performed systematic genome comparisons among N. albiflora and 11 other vertebrates. The phylogenetic tree was finally constructed based on 1,070 pairs of one‐to‐one protein‐coding orthologs using the MLE method. The yellow drum is evolutionarily close to the large yellow croaker, and the divergence time between them is about 19.7 MYA (Figure 3). Among all other teleosts, the three‐spined stickleback is a close sister group with the yellow drum and large yellow croaker (MYA: 64.8), which is consistent with the previous phylogenetic analysis of Sciaenidae and Gasterosteiformes (Ao et al., 2015).
Figure 3

Phylogenetic tree and orthologous genes in Nibea albiflora and 11 other vertebrates. Blue numbers in the phylogenetic tree indicate the divergence time (MYA, million years ago), and the green and red numbers represent the expanded and contracted gene families, respectively. The histogram shows different types of orthologous relationships. “1:1:1” means universal single‐copy genes; “N:N:N” means orthologs exist in all genomes; “SS” means species‐specific genes; and “Others” means orthologs that do not fit into the other categories

Phylogenetic tree and orthologous genes in Nibea albiflora and 11 other vertebrates. Blue numbers in the phylogenetic tree indicate the divergence time (MYA, million years ago), and the green and red numbers represent the expanded and contracted gene families, respectively. The histogram shows different types of orthologous relationships. “1:1:1” means universal single‐copy genes; “N:N:N” means orthologs exist in all genomes; “SS” means species‐specific genes; and “Others” means orthologs that do not fit into the other categories Furthermore, 44 significantly expanded and 11 contracted gene families (p < 0.01) were identified via comparing the gene families of the yellow drum with that of other vertebrates used in the phylogenetic analysis (Supporting Information Table S4). Expansion and contraction analyses can provide clues for inference of underlying genetic basis of specific physiological characteristics. For example, myosin family genes (such as MYH6, MYH7, and MYH11) were significantly expanded in the genome of yellow drum (33) compared with the large yellow croaker (12). Myosin acts as functional protein and structural protein, and is directly involved in many biological functions such as muscle contraction, cardiac regulation, cell movement, and signal transduction in animals (Fu & Zhang, 2008). Yellow drum is closer to large yellow croaker in phylogeny (Figure 3). However, it has been noted that yellow drum has better swimming ability than the large yellow croaker in the mariculture practice, which could be partially attributed to the expansion of family of myosin genes. Besides, sodium: neurotransmitter symporter (SNF) family genes (such as SLC6A1, SLC6A6, SLC6A8, SLC6A11, SLC6A12, and SLC6A13) were also expanded in yellow drum in contrast to large yellow croaker. Those genes are essential for the release, re‐uptaking, and recycling of neurotransmitters at synapses (Attwell & Bouvier, 1992). SLC6A1, SLC6A11, and SLC6A13, widely distributed in brain, encode sodium‐dependent transporters that uptake gamma‐aminobutyric acid (GABA) (Zhou et al., 2012). Defects in those genes may result in epilepsy, behavioral problems, or intellectual problems. SLC6A6, SLC6A8, and SLC6A12, expressed abundantly in the skeletal muscle, play key roles in optimal uptake and osmotic regulation (Borden, Smith, Gustafson, Branchek, & Weinshank, 2002; Sora et al., 1994). Those expanded genes might be also important for motility and osmotic regulation in the yellow drum. The detailed mechanism should be investigated in the future.

CONCLUSIONS

Here, we report the first genome assembly of the yellow drum, which has been demonstrated to be highly accurate and near complete. The results showed that our strategy of using a homozygous individual (gynogen) and better assembly algorithm (e.g., Platanus) in de novo genome assembling was powerful with just Illumina short reads. The near‐complete genome and its annotation allowed us to perform population genetics and evolutionary analyses in the yellow drum. These resources will also be necessary in conservation efforts and genetic breeding in this fish species. In addition, this study will illuminate undiscovered genetic characteristics of Nibea genus in the future studies on these species. Furthermore, the assembly is fragmented in contigs and is not ideally used for chromosome‐scale assembling. Hence, the genome still needs to be improved in the future with advanced technologies (e.g., long‐read sequencing and optical mapping).

CONFLICT OF INTERESTS

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Z.H. and W.L. performed all the analyses and wrote the manuscript. W.Z. and S.S. collected the samples and performed the wet lab experiments. K.Y. and Y.X. conducted the gynogenesis and raised the experimental fish population. Z.W. conceived and supervised the study, and revised the manuscript. All authors agreed on the final version of this manuscript.

DATA ACCESSIBILITY

All whole‐genome shotgun sequencing data are publicly available in the NCBI SRA (accession no.: PRJNA432345). Raw sequence reads of resequencing of four individuals and transcriptome data are available in NCBI under accession no.: PRJNA432345, PRJNA431723 and PRJNA359138. The assembled genome has been deposited into European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) under accession no. PRJEB24302. Click here for additional data file.
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