1. Pervasive tandem duplications and convergent evolution shape coral genomes
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Noel, Benjamin, Denoeud, France, Rouan, Alice, Buitrago-López, Carol, Capasso, Laura, Poulain, Julie, Boissin, Emilie, Pousse, Mélanie, da Silva, Corinne, Couloux, Arnaud, Armstrong, Eric, Carradec, Quentin, Cruaud, Corinne, Labadie, Karine, Lê-Hoang, Julie, Tambutté, Sylvie, Barbe, Valérie, Moulin, Clémentine, Bourdin, Guillaume, Iwankow, Guillaume, Romac, Sarah, Agostini, Sylvain, Banaigs, Bernard, Boss, Emmanuel, Bowler, Chris, de Vargas, Colomban, Douville, Eric, Flores, J. Michel, Forcioli, Didier, Furla, Paola, Galand, Pierre, Lombard, Fabien, Pesant, Stéphane, Reynaud, Stéphanie, Sullivan, Matthew, Sunagawa, Shinichi, Thomas, Olivier, Troublé, Romain, Thurber, Rebecca, Allemand, Denis, Planes, Serge, Gilson, Eric, Zoccola, Didier, Wincker, Patrick, Voolstra, Christian, Aury, Jean-Marc, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Géochrononologie Traceurs Archéométrie (GEOTRAC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Ecogéochimie des environnements benthiques (LECOB), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire océanologique de Banyuls (OOB), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de la Mer de Villefranche (IMEV), and Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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[SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] - Abstract
Background: Over the last decade, several coral genomes have been sequenced allowing a better understanding of these symbiotic organisms threatened by climate change. Scleractinian corals are reef builders and are central to coral reef ecosystems, providing habitat to a great diversity of species. Results: In the frame of the Tara Pacific expedition, we assemble two coral genomes, Porites lobata and Pocillopora cf. effusa, with vastly improved contiguity that allows us to study the functional organization of these genomes. We annotate their gene catalog and report a relatively higher gene number than that found in other public coral genome sequences, 43,000 and 32,000 genes, respectively. This finding is explained by a high number of tandemly duplicated genes, accounting for almost a third of the predicted genes. We show that these duplicated genes originate from multiple and distinct duplication events throughout the coral lineage. They contribute to the amplification of gene families, mostly related to the immune system and disease resistance, which we suggest to be functionally linked to coral host resilience. Conclusions: At large, we show the importance of duplicated genes to inform the biology of reef-building corals and provide novel avenues to understand and screen for differences in stress resilience. † Benjamin Noel and France Denoeud have equal contribution.
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- 2023
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