ERGA-BGE Reference Genome: Corema album ((L.) D. Don, 1830) - the Portuguese crowberry, endemic to the Iberian Peninsula.
Corema album is a perennial, dioecious shrub endemic to the Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula and the Azores. It inhabits coastal dune ecosystems from Galicia to the Strait of Gibraltar, where it plays an important ecological role. The goal of this study was to assemble and annotate a chromosome-level reference genome for C. album. The entirety of the genome sequence was assembled into 13 contiguous chromosomal pseudomolecules, one mitochondrial, and one chloroplast genome. This chromosome-level assembly encompasses 548 Mb, composed of 96 contigs and 68 unplaced scaffolds, with contig and scaffold N50 values of 23.7 Mb and 40.9 Mb, respectively. Structural annotation revealed that 51% of the genome of C. album consists of repeats, identified 53,794 genes and encompassed 94.6% of the Viridiplantae BUSCO genes set, confirming a high gene representativeness in the assembly.
Authors
- Bruno Nevado (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9765-2907)
- José Melo‐Ferreira (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4473-1908)
- Claúdio Ciofi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8537-8659)
- Joseph Kirangwa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9393-0500)
- Vítor C. Sousa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3575-0875)
- Chiara Bortoluzzi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6589-6635)
- Sara Vicente (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8538-3586)
- João Pedro Marques (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9834-1361)
- Judit Salces-Ortiz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3572-4020)
- Marco Morselli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3351-5791)
- Tom Brown (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8293-4816)
- Philipp H. Schiffer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6776-0934)
- Alessio Iannucci (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7729-4412)
- João Jacinto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7808-4238)
- Chiara Natali (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0293-171X)
- Sérgio Chozas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6741-1259)
- Manuela Sim‐Sim (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3467-6538)
- Carla Alegria (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9461-4569)
- Helena Trindade (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1209-2622)
- Maria Angela Diroma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1427-8946)
- Christian de Guttry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4341-1200)
- Ann M Mc Cartney
- Joana Jesus (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8007-5031)
- Cristina Máguas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4396-7073)
- Robert M. Waterhouse
- Alice Mouton
- Diego De Panis
- Giulio Formenti
- Rosa Fernández
- M. Judite Alves
Institutions
- University of Parma (IT)
- SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (CH)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- University of Lisbon (PT)
- University of Liège (BE)
- University of Cologne (DE)
- Universidade do Porto (PT)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- Sustainability Institute (ZA)
- Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária (PT)
- Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (FR)
- Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute (US)
- Berlin Center for Genomics in Biodiversity Research (DE)
- Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (ES)
- Interuniversity Consortium for Magnetic Resonance (IT)
- Escola Superior de Saúde Ribeiro Sanches (PT)
- Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia (PT)
- Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (DE)
- Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (FR)
- University of Florence (IT)
- Rockefeller University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Open Research Europe
- Published
- 2026-09-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.23076.1
- Primary Topic
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00