Caenorhabditis remanei (Nematode, PX506) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Caenorhabditis remanei

Caenorhabditis remanei is a small, free-living roundworm found in decaying plant material especially compost, mushroom beds in Northern temperate regions. The worms feed on the bacteria and other micro-organisms associated with plant decay. The biology of C. remanei is similar to that of C. elegans, with a short generation time through four larval stages into an adult. C.remanei has both male and female adults unlike the hermaphroditic species such as C. elegans and C. briggsae. All three species are often found at the same site. C. remanei is frequently found associated with snails, slugs, millipedes, mites and pill bugs, which are presumed to transport worms, especially the dormant dauer stage, from one location to another, as with other Caenorhabditids.

C. remanei was known as C. vulgaris prior to the demonstration that this was a junior synonym of C. remanei in 1996 (Sudhaus & Kiontke, 2006). The sequenced strain PB4641 was derived from a wild isolate EM464 isolated from a pillbug (Armadillidium vulgare) in Brooklyn, New York in 1990. The wild isolate was inbred for 20 generations in the lab of Scott Baird by transferral of a single gravid female per generation.

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Taxonomy ID 31234

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More information General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia

Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_010183535.1].

The total length of the assembly is 130466896 bp contained within 186 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 21501900, the scaffold L50 value is 3. The GC% content of the assembly is 38.0%.

Annotation

Metazoa displaying genes imported from GenBank entry linked to the assembly with accession GCA_010183535.1.

Genomic annotation was deposited along with initial assembly submission by "University of Oregon".

Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by metazoa.