Building a Portuguese Coalition for Biodiversity Genomics

作者：João Pedro Marques, Paulo C. Alves, Isabel R. Amorim, Ricardo J. Lopes, Mónica Moura, G.D. Meyers, Manuela Sim‐Sim, Carla Sousa‐Santos, Maria Judite Alves, Paulo A. V. Borges, Tom Brown, Miguel Carneiro, Carlos Carrapato, Luis M. P. Ceríaco, Claúdio Ciofi, Luís P. da Silva, Genevieve Diedericks, Maria Angela Diroma, Liliana Farelo, Giulio Formenti, Fátima Gil, Miguel L. Grilo, Alessio Ianucci, Henrique G. Leitão, Cristina Máguas, Ann M. Mc Cartney, Sofia Mendes, João M. Moreno, Marco Morselli, Alice Mouton, Chiara Natali, Fernando Pereira, Rúben M. Correia Rego, Roberto Resendes, Guilherme Roxo, Hannes Svardal, Helena Trindade, Sara Vicente, Sylke Winkler, Marcela Alvarenga, Andréia Vítor Couto do Amaral, Agostinho Antunes, Paula F. Campos, Adelino V. M. Canário, Rita Castilho, L. Filipe C. Castro, Angelica Crottini, Mónica V. Cunha, Gonçalo Espregueira Themudo, Pedro J. Esteves, Rui Faria, Carlos Fernandes, Jean‐Baptiste Ledoux, Bruno Louro, Sara Magalhães, Octávio S. Paulo, Gareth A. Pearson, João Pimenta, Francisco Pina‐Martins, Teresa L. Santos, Ester Á. Serrão, José Melo‐Ferreira, Vítor Sousa · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.32942/x20w3q · 被引用次数：3 · 研究领域：Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies、Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies、Identification and Quantification in Food

The diverse physiography of the Portuguese land and marine territory, spanning from continental Europe to the Atlantic archipelagos, has made it an important repository of biodiversity throughout the Pleistocene glacial cycles, leading to a remarkable diversity of species and ecosystems. This rich biodiversity is under threat from anthropogenic drivers, such as climate change, invasive species, land use changes, overexploitation or pathogen (re)emergence. The inventory, characterization and study of biodiversity at inter- and intra-specific levels using genomics is crucial to promote its preservation and recovery by informing biodiversity conservation policies, management measures and research. The participation of researchers from Portuguese institutions in the European Reference Genome Atlas (ERGA) initiative, and its pilot effort to generate reference genomes for European biodiversity, has reinforced the establishment of Biogenome Portugal. This nascent institutional network will connect the national community of researchers in genomics. Here, we describe the Portuguese contribution to ERGA’s pilot effort, which will generate high-quality reference genomes of six species from Portugal that are endemic, iconic and/or endangered, and include plants, insects and vertebrates (fish, birds and mammals) from mainland Portugal or the Azores islands. In addition, we outline the objectives of Biogenome Portugal, which aims to (i) promote scientific collaboration, (ii) contribute to ...