The genome project of the cubozoan jellyfish Morbakka virulenta (fire jellyfish).
The genome assembly MVIv1.0 is 952 Mbp long and consists of 4538 scaffolds with N50=2.17 Mbp (50% of the total assembly length is contained in 128 scaffolds). In total 24278 protein coding genes were predicted. DNA for the genome sequencing was extracted from a male jellyfish collected in Ondo Fishing Port, Hiroshima Prefecture (Japan). Genome sequence was reconstructed by shotgun approach using Illumina pair-end and mate-pair libraries with ~30x total coverage.
This genome project has been registered in NCBI under the BioProject accession PRJNA494059. The genome assembly has been deposited at DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank under the accession RDPX00000000.
Sequencing reads for the genome and transcriptome have been deposited in NCBI Sequence Read Archive under the study accession SRP164641.
The transcriptome assembly has been deposited at DDBJ/EMBL/GenBank under the accession GHAF00000000. You may also search genomic and transcriptomic data of Morbakka and other cnidarians using our BLAST server at OIST.
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