Draft Genome Assembly of the Poultry Red Mite, Dermanyssus gallinae

Stewart T G Burgess; Kathryn Bartley; Francesca Nunn; Harry W Wright; Margaret Hughes; Matthew Gemmell; Sam Haldenby; Steve Paterson; Stephane Rombauts; Fiona M Tomley; Damer P Blake; James Pritchard; Sabine Schicht; Christina Strube; Øivind Øines; Thomas Van Leeuwen; Yves Van de Peer; Alasdair J Nisbet

doi:10.1128/MRA.01221-18

Draft Genome Assembly of the Poultry Red Mite, Dermanyssus gallinae

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2018 Nov 8;7(18):e01221-18. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01221-18. eCollection 2018 Nov.

Authors

Stewart T G Burgess¹, Kathryn Bartley¹, Francesca Nunn¹, Harry W Wright¹, Margaret Hughes², Matthew Gemmell², Sam Haldenby², Steve Paterson², Stephane Rombauts^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Moredun Research Institute (MRI), Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
² Centre for Genomic Research, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
⁴ VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology, Ghent, Belgium.
⁵ Bioinformatics Institute Ghent, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
⁶ Department of Pathology and Population Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.
⁷ Institute for Parasitology, Centre for Infection Medicine, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
⁸ Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Oslo, Norway.
⁹ Department of Plants and Crops, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
¹⁰ Department of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Microbiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

Abstract

The poultry red mite, Dermanyssus gallinae, is a major worldwide concern in the egg-laying industry. Here, we report the first draft genome assembly and gene prediction of Dermanyssus gallinae, based on combined PacBio and MinION long-read de novo sequencing. The ∼959-Mb genome is predicted to encode 14,608 protein-coding genes.