Fig. 2

GenomeScope2 and Merqury analyses of the cleaned raw HiFi reads, primary, and alternative assemblies using HiFiasm. A. GenomeScope2 linear k-mer distributions for O. faveolata generated from Merqury output. Black line shows a theoretical diploid model for this species, with computed homozygosity (aa) and heterozygosity (ab) of 98.7% and 1.2% respectively. B. Merqury plot of the primary and alternative assemblies using HiFiASM in --primary mode. Default parameters showed duplicates were purged adequately (red and blue lines) resulting in no additional filtering before scaffolding, downstream gene prediction, and annotation steps