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

David J. Weston; Merritt R. Turetsky; Matthew G. Johnson; Gustaf Granath; Zoë Lindo; Lisa R. Belyea; Steven K. Rice; David T. Hanson; Katharina A.M. Engelhardt; Jeremy Schmutz; Ellen Dorrepaal; Eugénie S. Euskirchen; Hans K. Stenøien; Péter Szövényi; Michelle Jackson; Bryan T. Piatkowski; Wellington Muchero; Richard J. Norby; Joel E. Kostka; Jennifer B. Glass; Håkan Rydin; Juul Limpens; Eeva Stiina Tuittila; Kristian K. Ullrich; Alyssa Carrell; Brian W. Benscoter; Jin Gui Chen; Tobi A. Oke; Mats B. Nilsson; Priya Ranjan; Daniel Jacobson; Erik A. Lilleskov; R. S. Clymo; A. Jonathan Shaw

doi:10.1111/nph.14860

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

David J. Weston, Merritt R. Turetsky, Matthew G. Johnson, Gustaf Granath, Zoë Lindo, Lisa R. Belyea, Steven K. Rice, David T. Hanson, Katharina A.M. Engelhardt, Jeremy Schmutz, Ellen Dorrepaal, Eugénie S. Euskirchen, Hans K. Stenøien, Péter Szövényi, Michelle Jackson, Bryan T. Piatkowski, Wellington Muchero, Richard J. Norby, Joel E. Kostka, Jennifer B. GlassHåkan Rydin, Juul Limpens, Eeva Stiina Tuittila, Kristian K. Ullrich, Alyssa Carrell, Brian W. Benscoter, Jin Gui Chen, Tobi A. Oke, Mats B. Nilsson, Priya Ranjan, Daniel Jacobson, Erik A. Lilleskov, R. S. Clymo, A. Jonathan Shaw

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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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	16-25
Number of pages	10
Journal	New Phytologist
Volume	217
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14860
State	Published - Jan 2018

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The authors thank Drs Stan Wullschleger, Paul Hanson and two anonymous reviewers for comments on the manuscript. Work related to sequencing efforts are supported by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute by the Office of Science under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231; and germplasm establishment and maintenance is supported by the US DOE, Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research, Early Career Research Program. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the US DOE under contract no. DE-AC05-00OR22725. The authors thank the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), NSF #EF-0905606 and the New Phytologist Trust for sponsoring workshops on the Sphagnome Project.

Keywords

Sphagnome
Sphagnum
ecological genomics
ecosystem engineering
evolutionary genetics
genome sequencing
niche construction
peatlands

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Weston, D. J., Turetsky, M. R., Johnson, M. G., Granath, G., Lindo, Z., Belyea, L. R., Rice, S. K., Hanson, D. T., Engelhardt, K. A. M., Schmutz, J., Dorrepaal, E., Euskirchen, E. S., Stenøien, H. K., Szövényi, P., Jackson, M., Piatkowski, B. T., Muchero, W., Norby, R. J., Kostka, J. E., ... Shaw, A. J. (2018). The Sphagnome Project: enabling ecological and evolutionary insights through a genus-level sequencing project. New Phytologist, 217(1), 16-25. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14860

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