De novo genome assembly of Leptodactylus fuscus

This presents a de novo genome assembly of Leptodactylus fuscus. High molecular weight DNA was extracted from a L. fuscus embryo which had been preserved in ethanol upon collection in Garzón, Huila, Colombia. The library was prepared and sequenced with 10X Genomics Chromium. Linked reads were processed by Long Ranger basic v2.2.2 and assembled with Supernova v2.1.1. The assembled genome is 2.42 Gb with 16,530 scaffolds >=10 kb, and scaffold N50 = 363 kb. The assembly size of contigs larger than 10 kb (1.26 Gb) is about half of the estimated genome size (2.4 Gb). 72.6% of the BUSCO Tetrapoda gene annotations (version odb10) were identified.

Methods
High-molecular-weight genomic DNA was isolated from a single Leptodactylus fuscus individual and used to prepare a 10x Genomics Chromium library that was sequenced on Illumina HiSeq X sequencer (HudsonAlpha Institute of Biotechnology, Alabama, USA.). Barcodes were removed using the Long Ranger basic v2.2.2 (https://support.10xgenomics.com/genome-exome/software/downloads/latest). Trimmed reads were used for k-mer estimation in Jellyfish (v2.2.7). The k-mer (k=21) frequency distribution was processed in GenomeScope to estimate the genome size, heterozygosity, and percentage of repeat content. The linked-reads were assembled using the Supernova v2.1.1 assembler using default settings and the “–accept-extreme-coverage” flag. A summary of the assembly is provided in the Table S3 of the associated publication. The assembled genome is 2.42 Gb (16,530 scaffolds >=10 kb, scaffold N50 = 363 kb) and was outputted in the pseudohap2 format. The assembly size of contigs larger than 10 kb (1.26 Gb) is only ~1/2 of the estimated genome size (2.4 Gb). Effective depth coverage (48X) was in the middle of the recommended range (38-56X) which may have limited the success of the assembly. The completeness of the genome assembly was assessed using Benchmarking Universal Single-Copy Orthologs (BUSCOs, v4.0.5), and 72.6% of the BUSCO Tetrapoda gene annotations (version odb10) were identified.