Pharmacognosy, Department of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala 751 24, Sweden.
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, National Bioinformatics Infrastructure Sweden, Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm University, Solna SE-17121, Sweden.
G3 (Bethesda). 2023 Sep 30;13(10). doi: 10.1093/g3journal/jkad192.
Sponges are among the earliest branching extant animals. As such, genetic data from this group are valuable for understanding the evolution of various traits and processes in other animals. However, like many marine organisms, they are notoriously difficult to sequence, and hence, genomic data are scarce. Here, we present the draft genome assembly for the North Atlantic deep-sea high microbial abundance species Geodia barretti Bowerbank 1858, from a single individual collected on the West Coast of Sweden. The nuclear genome assembly has 4,535 scaffolds, an N50 of 48,447 bp and a total length of 144 Mb; the mitochondrial genome is 17,996 bp long. BUSCO completeness was 71.5%. The genome was annotated using a combination of ab initio and evidence-based methods finding 31,884 protein-coding genes.
海绵动物是现存最早分支的动物之一。因此，该类群的遗传数据对于了解其他动物的各种特征和过程的进化具有重要价值。然而，与许多海洋生物一样，它们很难进行测序，因此基因组数据非常匮乏。在这里，我们展示了从瑞典西海岸采集的单个个体的北大西洋深海高微生物丰度物种 Geodia barretti Bowerbank 1858 的基因组草图组装。核基因组组装有 4535 个支架，N50 为 48447 bp，总长度为 144 Mb；线粒体基因组长 17996 bp。BUSCO 完整性为 71.5%。该基因组使用从头预测和基于证据的方法进行注释，共发现 31884 个蛋白质编码基因。
