The genome assembly and annotation of the many-banded krait, Bungarus multicinctus

Boyang Liu; Liangyu Cui; Zhangwen Deng; Yue Ma; Diancheng Yang; Yanan Gong; Yanchun Xu; Tianming Lan; Shuhui Yang; Song Huang

doi:10.46471/gigabyte.82

The genome assembly and annotation of the many-banded krait, Bungarus multicinctus

GigaByte. 2023 Jun 29:2023:gigabyte82. doi: 10.46471/gigabyte.82. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Boyang Liu¹, Liangyu Cui¹, Zhangwen Deng², Yue Ma¹, Diancheng Yang^{3

4}, Yanan Gong^{3

4}, Yanchun Xu¹, Tianming Lan^{5

6}, Shuhui Yang¹, Song Huang^{3

4}

Affiliations

¹ College of Wildlife and Protected Area, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China.
² Guangxi Forest Inventory and Planning Institute, Nanning 530011, China.
³ Anhui Province Key Laboratory of the Conservation and Exploitation of Biological Resource, College of Life Sciences, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu 241000, China.
⁴ Huangshan Noah Biodiversity Institute, Huangshan 245000, China.
⁵ BGI Life Science Joint Research Center, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin 150040, China.
⁶ State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen 518083, China.

Abstract

Snakes are a vital component of wildlife resources and are widely distributed across the globe. The many-banded krait Bungarus multicinctus is a highly venomous snake found across Southern Asia and central and southern China. Snakes are an ancient reptile group, and their genomes can provide important clues for understanding the evolutionary history of reptiles. Additionally, genomic resources play a crucial role in comprehending the evolution of all species. However, snake genomic resources are still scarce. Here, we present a highly contiguous genome of B. multicinctus with a size of 1.51 Gb. The genome contains a repeat content of 40.15%, with a total length exceeding 620 Mb. Additionally, we annotated a total of 24,869 functional genes. This research is of great significance for comprehending the evolution of B. multicinctus and provides genomic information on the genes involved in venom gland functions.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2572020DY02) and the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Genome Read and Write (grant No. 2017B030301011). This work was also supported by China National GeneBank (CNGB).