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Target enrichment of long open reading frames and ultraconserved elements to link microevolution and macroevolution in non-model organisms
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  • Claudia Ortiz-Sepulveda,
  • Mathieu Genete,
  • Christelle Blassiau,
  • Cécile Godé,
  • Christian Albrecht,
  • Xavier Vekemans,
  • Bert Van Bocxlaer
Claudia Ortiz-Sepulveda
Université de Lille

Corresponding Author:claudia.ortiz-sepulveda@univ-lille.fr

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Mathieu Genete
CNRS
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Christelle Blassiau
Université de Lille
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Cécile Godé
CNRS
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Christian Albrecht
Justus Liebig Universitat Giessen
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Xavier Vekemans
Universite de Lille
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Bert Van Bocxlaer
CNRS
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Abstract

Despite the increasing accessibility of high-throughput sequencing, obtaining high-quality genomic data on non-model organisms without proximate well-assembled and annotated genomes remains challenging. Here we describe a workflow that takes advantage of distant genomic resources and ingroup transcriptomes to select and jointly enrich long open reading frames (ORFs) and ultraconserved elements (UCEs) from genomic samples for integrative studies of microevolutionary and macroevolutionary dynamics. This workflow is applied to samples of the African unionid bivalve tribe Coelaturini (Parreysiinae) at basin and continent-wide scales. Our results indicate that ORFs are efficiently captured without prior identification of intron-exon boundaries. The enrichment of UCEs was less successful, but nevertheless produced substantial datasets. Exploratory continent-wide phylogenetic analyses with ORF supercontigs (>515,000 parsimony informative sites) resulted in a fully resolved phylogeny, the backbone of which was also retrieved with UCEs (>11,000 informative sites). Variant calling on ORFs and UCEs of Coelaturini from the Malawi Basin produced ~2,000 SNPs per population pair. Estimates of nucleotide diversity and population differentiation were similar for ORFs and UCEs. They were low compared to previous estimates in mollusks, but comparable to those in recently diversifying Malawi cichlids and other taxa at an early stage of speciation. Skimming off-target sequence data from the same enriched libraries of Coelaturini from the Malawi Basin, we reconstructed the maternally-inherited mitogenome, which displays the gene order inferred for the most recent common ancestor of Unionidae. Overall, our workflow and results provide exciting perspectives for integrative genomic studies of microevolutionary and macroevolutionary dynamics in non-model organisms.
17 Jun 2022Submitted to Molecular Ecology Resources
13 Jul 2022Reviewer(s) Assigned
09 Sep 2022Review(s) Completed, Editorial Evaluation Pending
15 Sep 2022Editorial Decision: Revise Minor
09 Oct 2022Review(s) Completed, Editorial Evaluation Pending
09 Oct 20221st Revision Received
19 Oct 2022Editorial Decision: Accept