Reference genome of the Californian trapdoor spider Aptostichus stephencolberti Bond 2008 (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Euctenizidae)

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2026
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Abstract
We present a reference genome assembly for the trapdoor spider Aptostichus stephencolberti. This species, described in 2008, is endemic to the highly fragmented coastal dune habitats of Northern California from Monterey to the San Francisco Bay Area. Trapdoor spiders are ideal taxa for landscape scale genomic studies owing to their extreme site fidelity and limited dispersal capabilities; these same characteristics make them prone to extinction. Genomic studies of species like A. stephencolberti can reveal novel areas of endemism and high conservation value that may not be evident in species with wider ranges and greater dispersal capabilities. As part of the California Conservation Genomics Project, we constructed the A. stephencolberti reference genome from high quality long-read sequences, scaffolded with proximity ligation Omni-C data. The primary assembly comprises 551 scaffolds spanning 3.63 Gbp, a scaffold N50 of 62.2 Mbp and BUSCO completeness of 95.6%. We estimate 52 chromosomes yet find no (TTAGG)n telomer repeats. Expanding the telomeric repeat search finds an ancestral loss of the repeat from all spiders. Automated annotation using the NCBI refseq pipeline and RNAseq data from whole adults finds 14,067 genes with a BUSCO annotation completeness of 95.56%. Repeat annotation identified 77% of the genome to be interspersed repeats. This resource, the first for family Euctenizidae will facilitate future study and resulting conservation actions of A. stephencolberti and other Aptostichus sp. populations associated with the rapidly changing California coastal dune ecosystem.
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Authors Stephen Richards, Emma Jochim, Lacie Newton, James Starrett, Ruta Sahasrabudhe, Oanh Nguyen, Eric Beraut, Colin Fairbairn, Samuel Sacco, William Seligmann, Merly Escalona, Robert D. Cooper, H Bradley Shaffer, Erin Toffelmier, Jason E. Bond
Journal journal of heredity
Year 2026
DOI
10.1093/jhered/esag069
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https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esag069
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