Identifying, phasing, and structurally annotating sex chromosomes for genome assemblies using CBS-tools
Whitt, L.; Akozbek, L.; Bentz, P. C.; Armstrong, E.; Harkess, A.; Carey, S. B.
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A complete reference genome for species with chromosomally-determined separate sexes should contain scaffolds for all sex chromosome homologs. However, sex chromosomes present distinct computational challenges compared to autosomes. Here we present a k-mer based analysis that utilizes whole-genome sequencing of a few sex-identified isolates: Cytogenetics-By-Sequencing (CBS) tools. Unlike other approaches that typically address one aspect of the sex chromosomes, CBS-tools strives to guide users from the discovery of the heterogametic sex through identifying the sex-determination region (SDR). The core of CBS-tools is automated quantification of sex-specific k-mers in order to predict the heterogametic sex. Using publicly-available datasets, CBS-tools correctly identified the known sex-system of the 31 species tested. Additionally, we used these k-mers to verify and correct phasing of sex chromosomes between haplotypes in species representing different sex-systems. Finally, we used these k-mers to delimit the SDR boundary using an interactive web platform. CBS-tools was developed with previously unexplored sex chromosome systems in mind, but is also suitable for well-examined sex chromosome pairs.
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