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. 2023 Oct 18;8:468. [Version 1] doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.20149.1

The genome sequence of the Large Brook Dun, Ecdyonurus torrentis (Kimmins, 1942)

Andrew Farr 1, Craig Macadam 2; Natural History Museum Genome Acquisition Lab; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortiuma
PMCID: PMC10665603  PMID: 37997584

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual female Ecdyonurus torrentis (the Large Brook Dun; Arthropoda; Insecta; Ephemeroptera; Heptageniidae). The genome sequence is 503.2 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 11 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the X sex chromosome. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 15.69 kilobases in length.

Keywords: Ecdyonurus torrentis, Large Brook Dun, genome sequence, chromosomal, Ephemeroptera

Species taxonomy

Eukaryota; Metazoa; Eumetazoa; Bilateria; Protostomia; Ecdysozoa; Panarthropoda; Arthropoda; Mandibulata; Pancrustacea; Hexapoda; Insecta; Dicondylia; Pterygota; Palaeoptera; Ephemeroptera; Setisura; Heptageniidae; Ecdyonurus; Ecdyonurus torrentis (Kimmins, 1942) (NCBI:txid2014018).

Background

Ecdyonurus torrentis ( Figure 1) is a western Palearctic species found across central Europe from France to Ukraine. It is absent from Fennoscandia. It is found throughout Britain and Ireland, generally in northern and western areas, although there are scattered records from the south-east of England and the south of Ireland ( GBIF Secretariat, 2023).

Figure 1. Photograph of Ecdyonurus torrentis (not the specimen used for genome sequencing) by David Nicholls, Lea Meadows, 22 May 2015.

Figure 1.

This species is considered a eurytherm and is typically found in the upper and middle reaches of watercourses ( Buffagni et al., 2009). It is found at a range of altitudes, from upland streams to lowland watercourses. Larvae of E. torrentis are typically found in riffle areas of rivers and streams. They are usually found clinging to submerged stones, although they may swim if disturbed ( Elliott et al., 1988).

Ecdyonurus torrentis is univoltine, overwintering as larvae and adults emerging between May and September ( Elliott et al., 1988; Landa, 1968; Macan, 1957; Sowa, 1975; Sowa, 1979; Wise, 1980). In some years adults can be found as early as March. The flight period is often related to the altitude of the emergence site. In upstream reaches the flight period can last for up to three months, whereas at lower altitudes the flight period may be as short as one month ( Wise, 1980). The larvae feed by either scraping algae from the substrate or gathering fine particulate organic matter from the sediment ( Elliott et al., 1988).

The genome sequence for Ecdyonurus torrentis will aid in understanding the biology, physiology and ecology of the species and the relationship between this species and other Ecdyonurus species in Europe.

Genome sequence report

The genome was sequenced from one female Ecdyonurus torrentis collected from River Rye, Yorkshire, UK (54.21, –0.98). A total of 67-fold coverage in Pacific Biosciences single-molecule HiFi long reads and 76-fold coverage in 10X Genomics read clouds were generated. Primary assembly contigs were scaffolded with chromosome conformation Hi-C data. Manual assembly curation corrected 200 missing joins or mis-joins and removed 45 haplotypic duplications, reducing the assembly length by 1.77% and the scaffold number by 42.45%, and increasing the scaffold N50 by 1.06%.

The final assembly has a total length of 503.2 Mb in 121 sequence scaffolds with a scaffold N50 of 50.4 Mb ( Table 1). The snailplot in Figure 2 summarises the assembly statistics is shown in Figure 2, while the distribution of assembly scaffolds on GC proportion and coverage is shown in Figure 3. The cumulative assembly plot in Figure 4 shows curves for subsets of scaffolds assigned to different phyla. Most (97.25%) of the assembly sequence was assigned to 11 chromosomal-level scaffolds, representing 10 autosomes and the X sex chromosome. The X chromosome was identified by BUSCO synteny alignment to the curated male sample Siphlonurus alternatus (GCA_949825025.1). Chromosome-scale scaffolds confirmed by the Hi-C data are named in order of size ( Figure 5; Table 2). While not fully phased, the assembly deposited is of one haplotype. Contigs corresponding to the second haplotype have also been deposited. The mitochondrial genome was also assembled and can be found as a contig within the multifasta file of the genome submission.

Figure 2. Genome assembly of Ecdyonurus torrentis, ieEcdTorr1.1: metrics.

Figure 2.

The BlobToolKit Snailplot shows N50 metrics and BUSCO gene completeness. The main plot is divided into 1,000 size-ordered bins around the circumference with each bin representing 0.1% of the 357,657,189 bp assembly. The distribution of scaffold lengths is shown in dark grey with the plot radius scaled to the longest scaffold present in the assembly (90,518,639 bp, shown in red). Orange and pale-orange arcs show the N50 and N90 scaffold lengths (65,719,635 and 55,360,379 bp), respectively. The pale grey spiral shows the cumulative scaffold count on a log scale with white scale lines showing successive orders of magnitude. The blue and pale-blue area around the outside of the plot shows the distribution of GC, AT and N percentages in the same bins as the inner plot. A summary of complete, fragmented, duplicated and missing BUSCO genes in the diptera_odb10 set is shown in the top right. An interactive version of this figure is available at https://blobtoolkit.genomehubs.org/view/idCriRanu1.1/dataset/CATOTT01/snail.

Figure 3. Genome assembly of Ecdyonurus torrentis, ieEcdTorr1.1: BlobToolKit GC-coverage plot.

Figure 3.

Scaffolds are coloured by phylum. Circles are sized in proportion to scaffold length. Histograms show the distribution of scaffold length sum along each axis. An interactive version of this figure is available at https://blobtoolkit.genomehubs.org/view/idCriRanu1.1/dataset/CATOTT01/blob.

Figure 4. Genome assembly of Ecdyonurus torrentis, ieEcdTorr1.1: BlobToolKit cumulative sequence plot.

Figure 4.

The grey line shows cumulative length for all scaffolds. Coloured lines show cumulative lengths of scaffolds assigned to each phylum using the buscogenes taxrule. An interactive version of this figure is available at https://blobtoolkit.genomehubs.org/view/idCriRanu1.1/dataset/CATOTT01/cumulative.

Figure 5. Genome assembly of Ecdyonurus torrentis, ieEcdTorr1.1: Hi-C contact map of the ieEcdTorr1.1 assembly, visualised using HiGlass.

Figure 5.

Chromosomes are shown in order of size from left to right and top to bottom. An interactive version of this figure may be viewed at https://genome-note-higlass.tol.sanger.ac.uk/l/?d=GE7fh8rORWifzZkFK1tYag.

Table 1. Genome data for Ecdyonurus torrentis, ieEcdTorr1.1.

Project accession data
Assembly identifier ieEcdTorr1.1
Assembly release date 2023-04-08
Species Ecdyonurus torrentis
Specimen ieEcdTorr1
NCBI taxonomy ID 2014018
BioProject PRJEB57424
BioSample ID SAMEA7520824
Isolate information ieEcdTorr1, female; posterior body (DNA sequencing and
Hi-C scaffolding)
Assembly metrics * Benchmark
Consensus quality (QV) 51 ≥ 50
k-mer completeness 99.97% ≥ 95%
BUSCO ** C:97.7%[S:96.2%,D:1.5%],F:1.
0%,M:1.2%,n:1,367
C ≥ 95%
Percentage of assembly
mapped to chromosomes
97.25% ≥ 95%
Sex chromosomes X chromosome localised homologous pairs
Organelles Mitochondrial genome
assembled
complete single alleles
Raw data accessions
PacificBiosciences SEQUEL II ERR10480605, ERR10480606
10X Genomics Illumina ERR10489917, ERR10489918, ERR10489915,
ERR10489916
Hi-C Illumina ERR10489919
Genome assembly
Assembly accession GCA_949318235.1
Accession of alternate haplotype GCA_949318265.1
Span (Mb) 503.2
Number of contigs 1,012
Contig N50 length (Mb) 1.0
Number of scaffolds 121
Scaffold N50 length (Mb) 50.4
Longest scaffold (Mb) 60.6

* Assembly metric benchmarks are adapted from column VGP-2020 of “Table 1: Proposed standards and metrics for defining genome assembly quality” from ( Rhie et al., 2021).

** BUSCO scores based on the insecta_odb10 BUSCO set using v5.3.2. C = complete [S = single copy, D = duplicated], F = fragmented, M = missing, n = number of orthologues in comparison. A full set of BUSCO scores is available at https://blobtoolkit.genomehubs.org/view/idCriRanu1.1/dataset/CATOTT01/busco.

Table 2. Chromosomal pseudomolecules in the genome assembly of Ecdyonurus torrentis, ieEcdTorr1.

INSDC accession Chromosome Length (Mb) GC%
OX439128.1 1 58.27 29.0
OX439129.1 2 54.23 28.5
OX439130.1 3 53.52 28.5
OX439131.1 4 50.41 28.5
OX439132.1 5 49.0 28.5
OX439133.1 6 40.19 28.5
OX439134.1 7 34.41 28.5
OX439136.1 9 29.25 27.5
OX439135.1 8 28.63 28.5
OX439137.1 10 26.49 28.5
OX439127.1 X 60.64 29.0
OX439138.1 MT 0.02 36.5

The estimated Quality Value (QV) of the final assembly is 51 with k-mer completeness of 99.97%, and the assembly has a BUSCO v5.3.2 completeness of 97.7% (single = 96.2%, duplicated = 1.5%), using the insecta_odb10 reference set ( n = 1,367).

Metadata for specimens, spectral estimates, sequencing runs, contaminants and pre-curation assembly statistics can be found at https://links.tol.sanger.ac.uk/species/2014018.

Methods

Sample acquisition and nucleic acid extraction

A female Ecdyonurus torrentis (specimen ID NHMUK014361706, ToLID ieEcdTorr1) was collected from River Rye, Yorkshire, UK (latitude 54.21, longitude –0.98) on 2019-05-06 using a kicknet. The specimen was collected and identified by Andrew Farr (independent researcher) and snap-frozen on dry ice.

DNA was extracted at the Tree of Life laboratory, Wellcome Sanger Institute (WSI). The ieEcdTorr1 sample was weighed and dissected on dry ice with tissue set aside for Hi-C sequencing. Posterior body tissue was cryogenically disrupted to a fine powder using a Covaris cryoPREP Automated Dry Pulveriser, receiving multiple impacts. High molecular weight (HMW) DNA was extracted using the Qiagen MagAttract HMW DNA extraction kit. Low molecular weight DNA was removed from a 20 ng aliquot of extracted DNA using the 0.8X AMpure XP purification kit prior to 10X Chromium sequencing; a minimum of 50 ng DNA was submitted for 10X sequencing. HMW DNA was sheared into an average fragment size of 12–20 kb in a Megaruptor 3 system with speed setting 30. Sheared DNA was purified by solid-phase reversible immobilisation using AMPure PB beads with a 1.8X ratio of beads to sample to remove the shorter fragments and concentrate the DNA sample. The concentration of the sheared and purified DNA was assessed using a Nanodrop spectrophotometer and Qubit Fluorometer and Qubit dsDNA High Sensitivity Assay kit. Fragment size distribution was evaluated by running the sample on the FemtoPulse system.

Sequencing

Pacific Biosciences HiFi circular consensus and 10X Genomics read cloud DNA sequencing libraries were constructed according to the manufacturers’ instructions. DNA sequencing was performed by the Scientific Operations core at the WSI on Pacific Biosciences SEQUEL II (HiFi) and HiSeq X Ten (10X) instruments. Hi-C data were also generated from remaining tissue of ieEcdTorr1 using the Arima2 kit and sequenced on the Illumina NovaSeq 6000 instrument.

Genome assembly, curation and evaluation

Assembly was carried out with Hifiasm ( Cheng et al., 2021) and haplotypic duplication was identified and removed with purge_dups ( Guan et al., 2020). The assembly was then scaffolded with Hi-C data ( Rao et al., 2014) using YaHS ( Zhou et al., 2023). The assembly was checked for contamination and corrected using the gEVAL system ( Chow et al., 2016) as described previously ( Howe et al., 2021). Manual curation was performed using gEVAL, HiGlass ( Kerpedjiev et al., 2018) and Pretext ( Harry, 2022). The mitochondrial genome was assembled using MitoHiFi ( Uliano-Silva et al., 2023), which runs MitoFinder ( Allio et al., 2020) or MITOS ( Bernt et al., 2013) and uses these annotations to select the final mitochondrial contig and to ensure the general quality of the sequence.

A Hi-C map for the final assembly was produced using bwa-mem2 ( Vasimuddin et al., 2019) in the Cooler file format ( Abdennur & Mirny, 2020). To assess the assembly metrics, the k-mer completeness and QV consensus quality values were calculated in Merqury ( Rhie et al., 2020). This work was done using Nextflow ( Di Tommaso et al., 2017) DSL2 pipelines “sanger-tol/readmapping” ( Surana et al., 2023a) and “sanger-tol/genomenote” ( Surana et al., 2023b). The genome was analysed within the BlobToolKit environment ( Challis et al., 2020) and BUSCO scores ( Manni et al., 2021; Simão et al., 2015) were calculated.

Table 3 contains a list of relevant software tool versions and sources.

Table 3. Software tools: versions and sources.

Wellcome Sanger Institute – Legal and Governance

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Further, the Wellcome Sanger Institute employs a process whereby due diligence is carried out proportionate to the nature of the materials themselves, and the circumstances under which they have been/are to be collected and provided for use. The purpose of this is to address and mitigate any potential legal and/or ethical implications of receipt and use of the materials as part of the research project, and to ensure that in doing so we align with best practice wherever possible. The overarching areas of consideration are:

• Ethical review of provenance and sourcing of the material

• Legality of collection, transfer and use (national and international)

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Funding Statement

This work was supported by Wellcome through core funding to the Wellcome Sanger Institute (206194) and the Darwin Tree of Life Discretionary Award (218328).

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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Data availability

European Nucleotide Archive: Ecdyonurus torrentis (large brook dun). Accession number PRJEB57424; https://identifiers.org/ena.embl/PRJEB57424. ( Wellcome Sanger Institute, 2023) The genome sequence is released openly for reuse. The Ecdyonurus torrentis genome sequencing initiative is part of the Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) project. All raw sequence data and the assembly have been deposited in INSDC databases. The genome will be annotated using available RNA-Seq data and presented through the Ensembl pipeline at the European Bioinformatics Institute. Raw data and assembly accession identifiers are reported in Table 1.

Author information

Members of the Natural History Museum Genome Acquisition Lab are listed here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4790042.

Members of the Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective are listed here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4893703.

Members of the Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme are listed here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4783585.

Members of Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective are listed here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4790455.

Members of the Tree of Life Core Informatics collective are listed here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5013541.

Members of the Darwin Tree of Life Consortium are listed here: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4783558.

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Reviewer response for version 1

Michael T Monaghan 1

This genome assembly of Ecdyonurus torrentis (Ephemeroptera, Heptageniidae) in an important contribution to our knowledge of Ephemeroptera genomes. The quality appears to be high based on the methodology used, the assembly statistics, and the busco score. It could also be noted that E. torrentis is likely a species complex, based on taxonomic work on the Ecdyonurinae, and that genomics data are likely to help our understanding of the evolution of this diverse group of insects.

Are sufficient details of methods and materials provided to allow replication by others?

Yes

Is the rationale for creating the dataset(s) clearly described?

Yes

Are the datasets clearly presented in a useable and accessible format?

Yes

Are the protocols appropriate and is the work technically sound?

Yes

Reviewer Expertise:

NA

I confirm that I have read this submission and believe that I have an appropriate level of expertise to confirm that it is of an acceptable scientific standard.

Wellcome Open Res. 2023 Nov 6. doi: 10.21956/wellcomeopenres.22311.r69073

Reviewer response for version 1

Isabel Almudi 1

This data note presents the genome assembly of the mayfly Ecdyonurus torrentis from the Heptageniidae family of Ephemeroptera. Due to the relevance of this group for evolutionary and ecological studies, this genome assembly, and forthcoming Ephemeroptera genomes, will have great impact in these fields.

In order to generate this assembly, an adult female was collected and processed. The genome is 503,2 megabases assembled in 10 autosomes, one X chromosome and a mitochondrial genome. The quality of the assembly is excellent with high completeness as shown by BUSCO. Overall, the methods employed are adequate and clearly listed in the note.

Are sufficient details of methods and materials provided to allow replication by others?

Yes

Is the rationale for creating the dataset(s) clearly described?

Yes

Are the datasets clearly presented in a useable and accessible format?

Yes

Are the protocols appropriate and is the work technically sound?

Yes

Reviewer Expertise:

insect genomics, evolution & development

I confirm that I have read this submission and believe that I have an appropriate level of expertise to confirm that it is of an acceptable scientific standard.

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    Data Citations

    1. Wellcome Sanger Institute: The genome sequence of the Large Brook Dun, Ecdyonurus torrentis (Kimmins, 1942). European Nucleotide Archive.[dataset], accession number PRJEB57424,2023. [DOI] [PMC free article] [PubMed]

    Data Availability Statement

    European Nucleotide Archive: Ecdyonurus torrentis (large brook dun). Accession number PRJEB57424; https://identifiers.org/ena.embl/PRJEB57424. ( Wellcome Sanger Institute, 2023) The genome sequence is released openly for reuse. The Ecdyonurus torrentis genome sequencing initiative is part of the Darwin Tree of Life (DToL) project. All raw sequence data and the assembly have been deposited in INSDC databases. The genome will be annotated using available RNA-Seq data and presented through the Ensembl pipeline at the European Bioinformatics Institute. Raw data and assembly accession identifiers are reported in Table 1.


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