Draft Genome Assembly of the Sheep Scab Mite, Psoroptes ovis

Stewart T G Burgess; Kathryn Bartley; Edward J Marr; Harry W Wright; Robert J Weaver; Jessica C Prickett; Margaret Hughes; Sam Haldenby; Phuong Thi Le; Stephane Rombauts; Thomas Van Leeuwen; Yves Van de Peer; Alasdair J Nisbet

doi:10.1128/genomeA.00265-18

Draft Genome Assembly of the Sheep Scab Mite, Psoroptes ovis

Genome Announc. 2018 Apr 19;6(16):e00265-18. doi: 10.1128/genomeA.00265-18.

Authors

Stewart T G Burgess¹, Kathryn Bartley², Edward J Marr², Harry W Wright², Robert J Weaver³, Jessica C Prickett³, Margaret Hughes⁴, Sam Haldenby⁴, Phuong Thi Le^{5

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Affiliations

¹ Moredun Research Institute (MRI), Edinburgh, United Kingdom stewart.burgess@moredun.ac.uk.
² Moredun Research Institute (MRI), Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
³ Fera Science Ltd., York, United Kingdom.
⁴ Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
⁵ Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
⁶ VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium.
⁷ Bioinformatics Institute Ghent, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
⁸ Nutriomics: Nutrition and Obesity-Systemic Approaches, Hôpital la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
⁹ Integromics, Hôpital la Pitié Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
¹⁰ Department of Plants and Crops, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
¹¹ Department of Genetics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

Abstract

Sheep scab, caused by infestation with Psoroptes ovis, is highly contagious, results in intense pruritus, and represents a major welfare and economic concern. Here, we report the first draft genome assembly and gene prediction of P. ovis based on PacBio de novo sequencing. The ∼63.2-Mb genome encodes 12,041 protein-coding genes.