ERGA-BGE reference genome:  Orthotrichum diaphanum – a globally widespread epiphytic moss common in Europe

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  1. Pablo Aguado-Ramsay ,  
  2. Francisco Lara ,  
  3. Christian de Guttry ,  
  4. Chiara Bortoluzzi ,  
  5. Maria Conejero ,  
  6. Astrid Böhne ,  
  7. Rita Monteiro ,  
  8. Thomas Marcussen ,  
  9. Torsten Hugo Struck ,  
  10. Rebekah A Oomen ,  
  11. Genomescope Sequencing Team
    ,  
  12. Alice Moussy ,  
  13. Corinne Cruaud
    ,  
  14. Karine Labadie
    ,  
  15. Lola Demirdjian ,  
  16. Emilie Téodori
    ,  
  17. Caroline Belser
    ,  
  18. Patrick Wincker
    ,  
  19. Pedro H Oliveira ,  
  20. Jean-Marc Aury
    ,  
  21. Isabel Draper
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Abstract

The reference genome of Orthotrichum diaphanum Schrad. ex Brid. will provide a foundational genomic resource for phylogenomic, ecological, and evolutionary studies within Orthotrichaceae Arn. and, more broadly, bryophytes. Its ecological amplitude and global distribution makes it especially valuable for comparative genomics and understanding patterns of adaptation across environmental gradients. The genome sequence was assembled into 10 nuclear chromosomal pseudomolecules, plus one mitochondrial and one chloroplast genome. This chromosome-level assembly encompasses 0.30 Gb, composed of 354 contigs and 27 scaffolds, with contig and scaffold N50 values of 1.43 Mb and 29.3 Mb, respectively.

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Isabel Draper
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Biodiversity Genomics Europe (Grant no. 101059492) is funded by Horizon Europe under the Biodiversity, Circular Economy and Environment call (REA.B.3); co-funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) under contract numbers 22.00173 and 24.00054; and by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s Horizon Europe Guarantee Scheme. PAR, FL, and ID have received funding by the Spanish Research Agency (grants PID2020-115149GB-C21, PID2020-115149GB-C22, PID2024-161184NB-C21 and PID2024-161184NB-C22). PAR received financial support from the Autonomous Community of Madrid (PIPF-2022/ECO-24575). This work was supported by the Genoscope, the Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (CEA), France Génomique (ANR-10-INBS-09-08), and the exploratory research programme ‘ATLASea: Atlas of marine genomes and its targeted project SEQ-Sea (ANR-22-EXAT-0003-SEQ-Sea).

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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© 2026 Pablo Aguado-Ramsay (Co-Author); Francisco Lara (Co-Author); Christian de Guttry (Co-Author); Chiara Bortoluzzi (Co-Author); Maria Conejero (Co-Author); Astrid Böhne (Co-Author); Rita Monteiro (Co-Author); Thomas Marcussen (Co-Author); Torsten Hugo Struck (Co-Author); Rebekah A Oomen (Co-Author); Genomescope Sequencing Team (Co-Author); Alice Moussy (Co-Author); Corinne Cruaud (Co-Author); Karine Labadie (Co-Author); Lola Demirdjian (Co-Author); Emilie Téodori (Co-Author); Caroline Belser (Co-Author); Patrick Wincker (Co-Author); Pedro H Oliveira (Co-Author); Jean-Marc Aury (Co-Author); Isabel Draper (Corresponding Author, Co-Author) Creative Commons License

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Pablo Aguado-Ramsay

Departamento de Biología - Facultad de Ciencias, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Community of Madrid, ES-28049, Spain

CIBC-UAM Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Community of Madrid, ES-28049, Spain

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Co-Author, Conceptualization, Data Curation, Formal Analysis, Funding Acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project Administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – Original Draft Preparation, Writing – Review & Editing
0000-0002-8714-9304

Francisco Lara

Departamento de Biología - Facultad de Ciencias, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Community of Madrid, ES-28049, Spain

CIBC-UAM Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Community of Madrid, ES-28049, Spain

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0000-0002-1665-5277

Christian de Guttry

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland

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0000-0002-4341-1200

Chiara Bortoluzzi

SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, 1015, Switzerland

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0000-0001-6589-6635

Maria Conejero

Department of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, MNCN-CSIC Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid, Spain

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Astrid Böhne

Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Museum Koenig Bonn, Bonn, 53113, Germany

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Rita Monteiro

Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change, Museum Koenig Bonn, Bonn, 53113, Germany

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Thomas Marcussen

Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Centre for Ecological & Evolutionary Synthesis, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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Torsten Hugo Struck

Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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Rebekah A Oomen

Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Centre for Ecological & Evolutionary Synthesis, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Department of Biological Sciences, University of New Brunswick Saint John, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

Tjärnö Marine Laboratory, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Centre for Coastal Research, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway

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Genomescope Sequencing Team

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Alice Moussy

CEA, CNRS, Univ Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, Institut François Jacob, Genoscope, Evry, 91057, France

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Corinne Cruaud

CEA, CNRS, Univ Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, Institut François Jacob, Genoscope, Evry, 91057, France

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Karine Labadie

CEA, CNRS, Univ Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, Institut François Jacob, Genoscope, Evry, 91057, France

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Lola Demirdjian

Genomique Metabolique, Évry-Courcouronnes, Île-de-France, France

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Emilie Téodori

Genomique Metabolique, Évry-Courcouronnes, Île-de-France, France

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Caroline Belser

Genomique Metabolique, Évry-Courcouronnes, Île-de-France, France

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Patrick Wincker

Genomique Metabolique, Évry-Courcouronnes, Île-de-France, France

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Co-Author, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – Review & Editing

Pedro H Oliveira

Genomique Metabolique, Évry-Courcouronnes, Île-de-France, France

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Co-Author, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – Review & Editing

Jean-Marc Aury

Genomique Metabolique, Évry-Courcouronnes, Île-de-France, France

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Co-Author, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – Review & Editing

Isabel Draper

Departamento de Biología - Facultad de Ciencias, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Community of Madrid, ES-28049, Spain

CIBC-UAM Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Cambio Global, Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Community of Madrid, ES-28049, Spain

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Corresponding Author, Co-Author, Conceptualization, Funding Acquisition, Methodology, Project Administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – Original Draft Preparation, Writing – Review & Editing

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