A Highly Contiguous and Annotated Genome Assembly of the Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus)

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dc.creatorBlack, Andrew N.
dc.creatorBondo, Kristin J. (TTU)
dc.creatorMularo, Andrew
dc.creatorHernandez, Alvaro
dc.creatorYu, Yachi
dc.creatorStein, Carleigh M.
dc.creatorGregory, Andy
dc.creatorFricke, Kent A.
dc.creatorPrendergast, Jeff
dc.creatorSullins, Dan
dc.creatorHaukos, David
dc.creatorWhitson, Michael (TTU)
dc.creatorGrisham, Blake (TTU)
dc.creatorLowe, Zach
dc.creatorDeWoody, J. Andrew
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-24T14:55:48Z
dc.date.available2023-05-24T14:55:48Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. cc-by-nc
dc.description.abstractThe Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus; LEPC) is an iconic North American prairie grouse, renowned for ornate and spectacular breeding season displays. Unfortunately, the species has disappeared across much of its historical range, with corresponding precipitous declines in contemporary population abundance, largely due to climatic and anthropogenic factors. These declines led to a 2022 US Fish and Wildlife decision to identify and list two distinct population segments (DPSs; i.e., northern and southern DPSs) as threatened or endangered under the 1973 Endangered Species Act. Herein, we describe an annotated reference genome that was generated from a LEPC sample collected from the southern DPS. We chose a representative from the southern DPS because of the potential for introgression in the northern DPS, where some populations hybridize with the Greater Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido). This new LEPC reference assembly consists of 206 scaffolds, an N50 of 45 Mb, and 15,563 predicted protein-coding genes. We demonstrate the utility of this new genome assembly by estimating genome-wide heterozygosity in a representative LEPC and in related species. Heterozygosity in a LEPC sample was 0.0024, near the middle of the range (0.0003-0.0050) of related species. Overall, this new assembly provides a valuable resource that will enhance evolutionary and conservation genetic research in prairie grouse.
dc.identifier.citationBlack, A.N., Bondo, K.J., Mularo, A., Hernandez, A., Yu, Y., Stein, C.M., Gregory, A., Fricke, K.A., Prendergast, J., Sullins, D., Haukos, D., Whitson, M., Grisham, B., Lowe, Z., & DeWoody, J.A.. 2023. A Highly Contiguous and Annotated Genome Assembly of the Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus). Genome biology and evolution, 15(4). https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad043
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evad043
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2346/93640
dc.language.isoeng
dc.subjectconservation
dc.subjectde novo assembly
dc.subjecthaploid
dc.subjectPacific Biosciences
dc.subjectprairie grouse
dc.subjectTELL-seq
dc.titleA Highly Contiguous and Annotated Genome Assembly of the Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus)
dc.typeArticle

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