<b>Genome evolution of two intertidal </b><b><i>Sargassum</i></b><b> species (</b><b><i>S. fusiforme </i></b><b>and </b><b><i>S. thunbergii</i></b><b>) and their response to abiotic stressors</b>

<i>Sargassum fusiforme</i> and <i>Sargassum thunbergii</i> are ecologically and commercially important seaweeds that thrive in intertidal zones that are frequently exposed to extreme variation in environmental stress. About 438 Mb of <i>S. fusiforme</i> genome was assembled. The number of contigs of the <i>S. fusiforme</i> genome was 1,576, the N50 was 440,341 bp, and GC content was 48.45%. For <i>S. thunbergii</i>, a genome of size 376 Mb was assembled. The number of contigs was 2,347, the N50 was 244,659 bp, and GC content was 48.63%. About 21,692 genes were predicted in <i>S. fusiforme,</i> and about 19,211 genes were predicted in the <i>S. thunbergii</i> genome. <i>S. fusiforme</i> genemodel showed 85.1% BUSCO completeness, whereas the value was about 85.5% for <i>S. thunbergii.</i><br><br>Please cite: Kim et al. (2025)<br>Kim, H., Jo, J., Yang, J. H., Ettahi, K., Jeon, Y., Yu, J., Bhattacharya, D., Kwak, J. H. &amp; Yoon, H. S. Genome evolution of two intertidal <i>Sargassum</i> species (<i>S. fusiforme</i> and <i>S. thunbergii</i>) and their response to abiotic stressors. <i>Genome Biol. Evol.</i> <b>17</b>, evaf084 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf084