Amphimedon queenslandica (Demosponge) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Amphimedon queenslandica

Amphimedon queenslandica is a sponge native to the Great Barrier Reef. Its genome has been sequenced. It has been the subject of various studies on the evolution of metazoan development.

Amphimedon queenslandica (formerly A. reniera) is a sponge, discovered in 1998 and formally described in 2006 [1]. Despite its recent identification, this native of Great Barrier Reef has already proved itself a useful subject for the study of the evolutionary origins of metazoan development [2,3], and is the first member of phylum Porifera to have had its genome sequenced.

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Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_000090795.2].

The total length of the assembly is 164262607 bp contained within 13133 scaffolds. The scaffold N50 value is 123180, the scaffold L50 value is 299. Assembly gaps span 21125924 bp. The GC% content of the assembly is 35.5%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_000090795.2.

Ensembl Metazoa displaying genes imported from NCBI RefSeq annotation release version is not defined for GCA_000090795.2 assembly. Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by Ensembl Metazoa.

References

1. A new species of Amphimedon (Porifera, Demospongiae, Haplosclerida, Niphatidae) from the Capricorn-Bunker Group of Islands, Great Barrier Reef, Australia: target species for the 'sponge genome project'.
   Hooper JNA and Van Soest RWM. 2006. Zootaxa. 1314:31-29.
2. The demosponge Amphimedon queenslandica: reconstructing the ancestral metazoan genome and deciphering the origin of animal multicellularity.
   Degnan BM, Adamska M, Craigie A, Degnan SM, Fahey B, Gauthier M, Hooper JN, Larroux C, Leys SP, Lovas E et al. 2008. Cold Spring Harbor Protocols. 2008:pdb.emo108.
3. The Amphimedon queenslandica genome and the evolution of animal complexity.
   Srivastava M, Simakov O, Chapman J, Fahey B, Gauthier ME, Mitros T, Richards GS, Conaco C, Dacre M, Hellsten U et al. 2010. Nature. 466:720-726.
4. Deep developmental transcriptome sequencing uncovers numerous new genes and enhances gene annotation in the sponge Amphimedon queenslandica.
   Fernandez-Valverde SL, Calcino AD, Degnan BM. 2015. BMC Genomics. 16:387.