Title: The Sphagnome Project: enabling ecological and evolutionary insights through a genus-level sequencing project

Abstract

Considerable progress has been made in ecological and evolutionary genetics with studies demonstrating how genes underlying plant and microbial traits can influence adaptation and even 'extend' to influence community structure and ecosystem level processes. Progress in this area is limited to model systems with deep genetic and genomic resources that often have negligible ecological impact or interest. Thus, important linkages between genetic adaptations and their consequences at organismal and ecological scales are often lacking. Here we introduce the Sphagnome Project, which incorporates genomics into a long-running history of Sphagnum research that has documented unparalleled contributions to peatland ecology, carbon sequestration, biogeochemistry, microbiome research, niche construction, and ecosystem engineering. The Sphagnome Project encompasses a genus-level sequencing effort that represents a new type of model system driven not only by genetic tractability, but by ecologically relevant questions and hypotheses.

Authors:

Weston, David J.  ^[1];

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Turetsky, Merritt R. ^[2]; Johnson, Matthew G. ^[3]; Granath, Gustaf ^[4]; Lindo, Zoë ^[5]; Belyea, Lisa R. ^[6]; Rice, Steven K. ^[7]; Hanson, David T. ^[8]; Engelhardt, Katharina A. M. ^[9]; Schmutz, Jeremy ^[10]; Dorrepaal, Ellen ^[11]; Euskirchen, Eugénie S. ^[12]; Stenøien, Hans K. ^[13]; Szövényi, Péter ^[14]; Jackson, Michelle ^[15]; Piatkowski, Bryan T. ^[15]; Muchero, Wellington  ^[16];

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Norby, Richard J.  ^[17];

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Kostka, Joel E. ^[18]; Glass, Jennifer B. ^[18] more »; Rydin, Håkan ^[19]; Limpens, Juul ^[20]; Tuittila, Eeva-Stiina ^[21]; Ullrich, Kristian K. ^[22]; Carrell, Alyssa ^[16]; Benscoter, Brian W. ^[23]; Chen, Jin-Gui  ^[16];

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Oke, Tobi A. ^[2]; Nilsson, Mats B. ^[24]; Ranjan, Priya ^[25]; Jacobson, Daniel  ^[16];

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Lilleskov, Erik A. ^[26]; Clymo, R. S. ^[27]; Shaw, A. Jonathan ^[15] « less

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1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Biosciences Division, Climate Change Science Inst.
2. Univ. of Guelph, ON (Canada). Dept. of Integrative Biology
3. Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock, TX (United States). Dept. of Biological Sciences
4. Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Uppsala (Sweden). Dept. of Ecology
5. Univ. of Western Ontario, London, ON (Canada). Dept. of Biology
6. Queen Mary Univ. of London (United Kingdom). School of Geography
7. Union College, Schenectady, NY (United States). Dept. of Biological Sciences
8. Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States). Dept. of Biology
9. Univ. of Maryland Center of Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD (United States). Applachian Lab.
10. HudsonAlpha Inst. of Biotechnology, Huntsville, AL (United States); USDOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Walnut Creek, CA (United States)
11. Umea Univ. (Sweden). Dept. of Ecology and Environmental Science
12. Univ. of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK (United States). Inst. of Arctic Biology
13. Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, Trondheim (Norway). NTNU Univ. Museum
14. Univ. of Zurich (Switzerland). Dept. of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany
15. Duke Univ., Durham, NC (United States). Dept. of Biology
16. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Biosciences Division
17. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Climate Change Science Inst., Environmental Sciences Division
18. Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States). Schools of Biology and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
19. Uppsala Univ. (Sweden). Dept. of Ecology and Genetics
20. Wageningen Univ. (Netherlands). Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group, Dept. of Environmental Sciences
21. Univ. of Eastern Finland, Joensuu (Finland). School of Forest Sciences
22. Max Planck Inst. for Evolutionary Biology, Plon (Germany)
23. Florida Atlantic Univ., Davie, FL (United States). Dept. of Biological Sciences
24. Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umea (Sweden). Dept. of Forest Ecology and Management
25. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States). Dept of Plant Sciences
26. Northern Research Station, Hougton, MI (United States). U.S. Forest Service
27. Queen Mary Univ., London (United Kingdom). School of Biological and Chemical Sciences

Publication Date:

Fri Oct 27 00:00:00 EDT 2017

Research Org.:

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:

USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); National Science Foundation (NSF)

OSTI Identifier:

1407984

Alternate Identifier(s):

OSTI ID: 1405197; OSTI ID: 1616055

Grant/Contract Number:  

AC05-00OR22725; AC02-05CH11231; #EF-0905606

Resource Type:

Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:

New Phytologist

Additional Journal Information:

Journal Volume: NA; Journal Issue: NA; Journal ID: ISSN 0028-646X

Publisher:

Wiley

Country of Publication:

United States

Language:

English

Subject:

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES; ecological genomics; ecosystem engineering; evolutionary genetics; genome sequencing; niche construction; peatlands; Sphagnome; Sphagnum