Transcriptome assemblies of two deep-sea octocorals Calyptrophora lyra and Chrysogorgia stellata from West Pacific seamount, Godin Guyot

Taewoo Ryu; Sung-Jin Hwang; Seonock Woo

doi:10.1016/j.margen.2022.101006

Transcriptome assemblies of two deep-sea octocorals Calyptrophora lyra and Chrysogorgia stellata from West Pacific seamount, Godin Guyot

Mar Genomics. 2023 Feb:67:101006. doi: 10.1016/j.margen.2022.101006. Epub 2022 Nov 22.

Authors

Taewoo Ryu¹, Sung-Jin Hwang², Seonock Woo³

Affiliations

¹ Marine Climate Change Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, 1919-1 Tancha, Onna-son, Okinawa 904-0495, Japan.
² Department of Life Science, Woosuk University, Jincheon-gun 27841, South Korea.
³ Marine Biotechnology Research Center, Korea Institute of Ocean Science and Technology, Busan 49111, South Korea. Electronic address: cwoo@kiost.ac.kr.

PMID: 36682849
DOI: 10.1016/j.margen.2022.101006

Abstract

This is the first report of the transcriptome assemblies of the deep-sea octocorals Calyptrophora lyra and Chrysogorgia stellata, which were collected in a survey of the West Pacific seamounts area. We sequenced the transcriptomes of C. lyra and C. stellata using the Illumina NovaSeq 6000 System. De novo assembly and analysis of the coding regions predicted 193,796 unigenes from the total 116,441,796 reads of C. lyra and 235,513 unigenes from the total 122,031,866 reads of C. stellata. Our data are a valuable resource with which to understand the ecological and biological characteristics of the West Pacific deep-sea corals. The data will also contribute to the study of deep-sea environments as extreme and limited habitats and provide direction for future research and further insight into the organismal responses of deep-sea corals to environmental changes.

Keywords: Calyptrophora lyra; Chrysogorgia stellata; Deep-sea corals; Seamount; Transcriptome.

MeSH terms

Animals
Anthozoa* / genetics
Base Sequence
Ecosystem
Transcriptome*