First draft genome assembly and characterization of spongeHalisarca dujardiniireveals key components of basement membrane and broad repertoire of aggregation factors
Ilya Borisenko,
Alexander Predeus,
Andrey Lavrov
et al.
Abstract:How features characteristic of multicellular animals emerged in evolution and how the body plan of particular taxa was shaped are hotspots of modern evolutionary biology. We can get closer to answering them by studying animals that occupy a basal position on the phylogenetic tree, such as sponges (Porifera). We sequenced the genome of the spongeHalisarca dujardiniiusing Oxford Nanopore and Illumina technologies and made an assembly of long reads, followed by polishing with short reads. The resulting assembly h… Show more
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