Rapid Evolutionary Rates and Unique Genomic Signatures Discovered in the First Reference Genome for the Southern Ocean Salp, Salpa thompsoni (Urochordata, Thaliacea)

• Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Jue, Nathaniel K., Batta-Lona, Paola G., Trusiak, Sarah, Obergfell, Craig, Bucklin, Ann, O’Neill, Michael J., O’Neill, Rachel J.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2016
• Subjects: Research Article; Antarctic; Indel’; Southern Ocean; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5174732/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27624472; https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evw215

A preliminary genome sequence has been assembled for the Southern Ocean salp, Salpa thompsoni (Urochordata, Thaliacea). Despite the ecological importance of this species in Antarctic pelagic food webs and its potential role as an indicator of changing Southern Ocean ecosystems in response to climate...