Dendronephthya gigantea (Carnation coral, DGI-Jeju-01) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Dendronephthya gigantea

Dendronephthya gigantea belong to the genus of soft corals in the family Nephtheidae. There are over 250 described species in this genus. They are sometimes kept in aquariums, but are notoriously difficult to keep, requiring a near constant supply of small foods such as phytoplankton. D. gigantea, an octocoral also known as carnation coral is a dominant species in the most southerncoastal part of Korea. The genome of D. gigantea could serve as a resource for evolutionary studies of azooxanthellate octocorals in terms of understanding different coping strategies mediating against rapid environmental changes in comparison to other published stony coralgenomes (1).

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Taxonomy ID 151771

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Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_004324835.1].

The total length of the assembly is 286150628 bp contained within 1321 contigs. The contig N50 value is 1445523, the contig L50 value is 56. Assembly gaps span 0 bp. The GC% content of the assembly is 37.0%.

Annotation

Ensembl Metazoa displaying genes imported from NCBI RefSeq annotation release v100. Small RNA features, protein features, BLAST hits and cross-references have been computed by Ensembl Metazoa.

References

1. Jeon, Yeonsu et al. “The Draft Genome of an Octocoral, Dendronephthya gigantea.” Genome biology and evolution vol. 11,3 (2019): 949-953.