Branchiostoma lanceolatum (Amphioxus) Assembly and Gene Annotation
About Branchiostoma lanceolatum
The European lancelet is a marine invertebrate in the subphylum Cephalochordata. It is used as a model organism to study vertebrate evolutionary development.
Picture credit: Hans Hillewaert Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons (Image source)
Assembly
The B. lanceolatum genome was imported from the Amphiencode project website.
The genes imported from the Amphiencode project website were selected based on the reference proteins.
References
- Amphioxus functional genomics and the origins of vertebrate gene
regulation.
Firbas PN, Maeso I, et al.. 2018. Nature. 564(7734):64-70.
Picture credit: By © Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5712836
Statistics
Summary
| Assembly | BraLan2, INSDC Assembly GCA_900088365.1, |
| Database version | 116.1 |
| Golden Path Length | 495,353,434 |
| Genebuild by | University of Oxford |
| Genebuild method | Import |
| Data source | University of Oxford |
Gene counts
| Coding genes | 35,955 |
| Gene transcripts | 36,020 |
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