Climate change and ocean warming threaten the persistence of corals worldwide. Genomic resources are critical to study the evolutionary trajectory, adaptive potential, and genetic distinctiveness of coral species. Here we provide a reference genome of the cauliflower coral Pocillopora verrucosa, a broadly prevalent reef-building coral with important ecological roles in the maintenance of reefs across the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific Ocean. The genome has an assembly size of 380,505,698 bp with a scaffold N50 of 333,696 bp and a contig N50 of 75,704 bp. The annotation of the assembled genome returned 27,439 gene models of which 89.88% have evidence of transcription from RNA-Seq data and 97.87% show homology to known genes. A high proportion of the genome (41.22%) is comprised of repetitive elements in comparison to other cnidarian genomes, in particular in relation to the small genome size of P. verrucosa.

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花椰菜珊瑚 Pocillopora verrucosa 的基因组。

气候变化和海洋变暖威胁着全世界珊瑚的生存。基因组资源对于研究珊瑚物种的进化轨迹、适应潜力和遗传特征至关重要。在这里，我们提供了花椰菜珊瑚Pocillopora verrucosa的参考基因组，一种广泛流行的造礁珊瑚，在维护红海、印度洋和太平洋的珊瑚礁方面具有重要的生态作用。基因组的组装大小为 380,505,698 bp，支架 N50 为 333,696 bp，重叠群 N50 为 75,704 bp。组装基因组的注释返回了 27,439 个基因模型，其中 89.88% 有来自 RNA-Seq 数据的转录证据，97.87% 显示出与已知基因的同源性。与其他刺胞动物基因组相比，高比例的基因组 (41.22%) 由重复元件组成，特别是与P. verrucosa的小基因组大小相关。