Insight into the genome data of commercially important giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera

Sujay Paul; Erika Salavarría; Katherine García; Alonso Reyes-Calderón; Patricia Gil-Kodaka; Ilanit Samolski; Aashish Srivastava; Anindya Bandyopadhyay; Gretty K Villena

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2022.108068

Insight into the genome data of commercially important giant kelp Macrocystis pyrifera

Data Brief. 2022 Mar 18:42:108068. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.108068. eCollection 2022 Jun.

Authors

Sujay Paul¹, Erika Salavarría², Katherine García³, Alonso Reyes-Calderón³, Patricia Gil-Kodaka⁴, Ilanit Samolski³, Aashish Srivastava⁵, Anindya Bandyopadhyay^{6

7}, Gretty K Villena³

Affiliations

¹ Tecnologico de Monterrey, School of Engineering and Sciences, Campus Queretaro, Av. Epigmenio Gonzalez, No. 500 Fracc. San Pablo, Queretaro CP 76130, Mexico.
² Facultad de Ciencias del Mar, Grupo de investigación 'Bioeconomia Costera', Universidad Estatal Península de Santa Elena, Km 1 Sta. Elena - La Libertad. Ecuador.
³ Laboratorio de Micología y Biotecnología LMB, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Av. La Molina s/n, 12, Lima, Peru.
⁴ Facultad de Pesquería, Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina, Lima, Peru.
⁵ Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen 5021, Norway.
⁶ International Rice Research Institute, Manila 4031, Philippines.
⁷ Reliance Industries Ltd., Navi Mumbai 400701, India.

Abstract

Kelps or brown algae are a wide group of marine macroalgae that play an important role in aquatic ecosystems and generally have high commercial value. To facilitate brown algal studies, we report the complete genome sequence of the largest kelp Macrocystis pyrifera. The whole genome is ∼428 Mb in size, comprises 44,307 scaffolds with an average GC content of 47%, and is predicted to contain a total of 24,778 genes. 18S sequence-based phylogenetic analysis revealed that littoral brown seaweed Scytosiphon lomentaria is the closest species of M. pyrifera. Numerous genes identified in this dataset are involved in genetic information processing, signaling, and cellular processes, carbohydrate metabolism, and terpenoids biosynthesis.

Keywords: Brown alga; Illumina; Macrocystis pyrifera; Nanopore; Valuable bioproducts; Whole genome sequencing.