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. 2022 Feb 5:41:107931.
doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2022.107931. eCollection 2022 Apr.

Draft genome assembly and sequencing dataset of the marine diatom Skeletonema cf. costatum RCC75

Maria Sorokina  1 , Emanuel Barth  2 , Mahnoor Zulfiqar  1 , Michiel Kwantes  1 , Georg Pohnert  1 , Christoph Steinbeck  1
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Draft genome assembly and sequencing dataset of the marine diatom Skeletonema cf. costatum RCC75

Maria Sorokina et al. Data Brief. .

Abstract

Diatoms (Bacillariophyceae) are a major constituent of the phytoplankton and have a universally recognized ecological importance. Between 1,000 and 1,300 diatom genera have been described in the literature, but only 10 nuclear genomes have been published and made available to the public up to date. Skeletonema costatum is a cosmopolitan marine diatom, principally occurring in coastal regions, and is one of the most abundant members of the Skeletonema genus. Here we present a draft assembly of the Skeletonema cf. costatum RCC75 genome, obtained from PacBio and Illumina NovaSeq data. This dataset will expand the knowledge of the Bacillariophyceae genetics and contribute to the global understanding of phytoplankton's physiological, ecological, and environmental functioning.

Keywords: Algal genome; Bacillariophyceae; Diatoms; Genome sequencing; Illumina sequencing; PacBio sequencing; Skeletonema costatum.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships which have or could be perceived to have influenced the work reported in this article.

Figures

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Fig. 1
Bright-field light microscopy image of an S. costatum RCC75 filament consisting of five cells. For the upper pair of cells, the connecting processes are indicated by triangles. Scale bar, 20 µm.
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