Katerina Vasileiadou‡, Tereza Manousaki§, Thanos Dailianis§, Grigorios Skouradakis§, Emmanouela Vernadou§, Danae Karakasi|¶, Astrid Böhne#, Rita Monteiro#, Rosa Fernández¤, Nuria Escudero¤, Genoscope Sequencing Team«, Alice Moussy«, Corinne Cruaud«, Karine Labadie«, Lola Demirdjian», Benjamin Istace», Arnaud Couloux», Patrick Wincker», Pedro H Oliveira», Jean-Marc Aury», Leanne Haggerty˄, Swati Sinha˄, Fergal Martin˄, Chiara Bortoluzzi˅¦ˀCorresponding author: Chiara Bortoluzzi ( chiara.bortoluzzi@sib.swiss ) © Katerina Vasileiadou, Tereza Manousaki, Thanos Dailianis, Grigorios Skouradakis, Emmanouela Vernadou, Danae Karakasi, Astrid Böhne, Rita Monteiro, Rosa Fernández, Nuria Escudero, Genoscope Sequencing Team, Alice Moussy, Corinne Cruaud, Karine Labadie, Lola Demirdjian, Benjamin Istace, Arnaud Couloux, Patrick Wincker, Pedro H Oliveira, Jean-Marc Aury, Leanne Haggerty, Swati Sinha, Fergal Martin, Chiara Bortoluzzi. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Vasileiadou K, Manousaki T, Dailianis T, Skouradakis G, Vernadou E, Karakasi D, Böhne A, Monteiro R, Fernández R, Escudero N, Team GS, Moussy A, Cruaud C, Labadie K, Demirdjian L, Istace B, Couloux A, Wincker P, Oliveira PH, Aury J-M, Haggerty L, Sinha S, Martin F, Bortoluzzi C (2025) ERGA-BGE genome of Pinctada radiata (Leach, 1814): one of the first Lessepsian migrants. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e154462 |  |
Pinctada radiata, commonly known as the Gulf pearl oyster, is a species of pearl oyster found primarily in the warm waters of the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, and parts of the Indian Ocean. Pinctada radiata contributes to marine ecosystems by filtering water, which helps maintain water quality and supports other marine life. This species is the first bivalve Lessepsian migrant, having migrated from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea via the Suez Canal. The reference genome of Pinctada radiata could help identify genes enabling adaptation to varying temperatures and salinities, facilitating survival in diverse and newly colonized habitats allowing comparisons with other bivalves to uncover shared and unique genetic adaptations. Additionally, the genome could support targeted management practices and conservation initiatives, such as habitat restoration and selective breeding, ensuring the long-term sustainability of P. radiata. The entirety of the genome sequence was assembled into 14 contiguous chromosomal pseudomolecules. This chromosome-level assembly encompasses 0.93 Gb, composed of 220 contigs and 44 scaffolds, with contig and scaffold N50 values of 8.1 Mb and 63.8 Mb, respectively.