Pomphorhynchus laevis (Thorny-headed worm, GPI110) Assembly and Gene Annotation

About scientific_name

Pomphorhynchus laevis is an endo-parasitic acanthocephalan worm, with a complex life cycle, that can modify the behaviour of its intermediate host, the freshwater amphipod Gammarus pulex [1]. P. laevis does not contain a digestive tract and relies on the nutrients provided by its host species. In the fish host this can lead to the accumulation of lead in P. laevis by feeding on the bile of the host species

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Taxonomy ID 141832

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Assembly

The assembly presented here has been imported from INSDC and is linked to the assembly accession [GCA_012934845.2], published in PLOS ONE, 2020 (Mauer K et al.,)[2].

The total length of the assembly is 253,271,445 bp contained within 3,864 contigs. The contig N50 value is 126,570, the contig L50 value is 615. The GC% content of the assembly is 33.0%.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to genbank deposited by Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_012934845.2.

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

References

1. Parasite-induced changes in behavior and color make Gammarus pulex more prone to fish predation. Bakker, Theo C. M.; Mazzi, Dominique; Zala, Sarah (1997).
2. The genome, transcriptome, and proteome of the fish parasite Pomphorhynchus laevis (Acanthocephala). PLOS ONE, 2020;15(6)