Unveiling metabolic pathways involved in the extreme desiccation tolerance of an Atacama cyanobacterium

Gloeocapsopsis dulcis genome

Genomic characteristics for G. dulcis are summarized in Table 1. Following sequence assembly in Trycycler¹³ we obtained a genome comprised of a ~ 5.29 Mbp chromosome and two plasmids, 11,484 and 307,228 bp in size. The mean read depth of the main chromosome was 492× as determined by Polypolish²⁰. The mean read depth for the larger and smaller plasmid was 518× and 1040×, respectively. Following genome polishing with POLCA²¹, the consensus quality and consensus QV were estimated to be 99.9999 and 61.22, respectively,…