280-2010-CONCYTEC-OAJ

364-CONCYTEC-OAJ

This study was supported by Proyecto Vig?´a MINSA/USAID, Lima; Premio Anual de Medicina Francisco Tejada y Sem?´ramis Rea´tegui (Facultad de Medicina Alberto Hurtado, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, UPCH), Lima; Fundacio´n Instituto Hipo´lito Unanue, Lima and Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnolog?´a (CONCYTEC), Lima-Peru´. CT received support from CONCYETC, the Agreement between Consortium of Francophones Universities of Belgium (CIUF) and UPCH, and the Fundacio´n Cristina e Ismael Cobia´n (Facultad de Ciencias y Filosof?´a Alberto Cazorla Ta´lleri, UPCH). We are very grateful to Dr. Rupert Quinnell for valuable suggestions to this paper.

Microalgae are photosynthetic organisms with cosmopolitan distribution (i.e., marine, freshwater and terrestrial habitats) and possess a great diversity of species [1] and consequently an immense variation in biochemical compositions [2]. To date genomic information is available mainly from the model green microalga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii [3]. Here we provide the dataset of a de novo assembly and functional annotation of the transcriptomes of three native oleaginous microalgae from the Peruvian Amazon. Native oleaginous microalgae species Ankistrodesmus sp., Chlorella sp., and Scenedesmus sp. were cultured in triplicate using Chu-10 medium with or without a source of nitrate (NaNO3). Total RNA was purified, the cDNA libraries were constructed and sequenced as paired-end reads on an Illumina HiSeq™2500 platform. Transcriptomes were de novo assembled using Trinity v2.9.1. A total of 4...

Ankistrodesmus falcatus strain UCP001 is a native oleaginous microalgae isolated from the Peruvian Amazon basin. In this study we sequenced, de novo assembled, and functionally annotated the complete mitochondrial genome of the native oleaginous microalgae Ankistrodesmus falcatus strain UCP001 (Accesion number MT701044). This mitogenome is a typical circular double stranded DNA molecule of 41,048 bp in total length with G + C content of 37.4%. The mitogenome contains 49 genes, including 18 protein coding genes, 5 ribosomal (rRNA) genes and 26 transfer RNA (tRNA) genes. A phylogenetic analysis of 18 microalgae species indicated that Ankistrodesmus falcatus strain UCP001 was closely related to Ourococcus multisporus and Raphidocelis subcapitata. The complete mitochondrial genome sequence of Ankistrodesmus falcatus strain UCP001 enriches genomic resources of oleaginous native microalgae fro...