Macrostomum lignano
BioProject PRJNA371498 | Data Source University Medical Center Groningen | Taxonomy ID 282301
About Macrostomum lignano
Macrostomum lignano is a free-living, hermaphroditic flatworm found as part of the intertidal sand meiofauna of the Adriatic Sea. It has a high regeneration capacity facilitated by neoblasts, the stem cell system of the worm. It was first discovered in 1995 (described as a species in 2005) and since then has been the subject of research in several laboratories. Due to its small size, short generation time, amenability to genetic manipulation and easy maintenance in laboratory conditions, M. lignano has the potential to be a good invertebrate experimental model for stem cell research.
There is 1 alternative genome project for Macrostomum lignano available in WormBase ParaSite: PRJNA284736
Genome Assembly & Annotation
Assembly
The genome was sequenced using Illumina and PacBio reads, as described by Wudarski et al. (2017) .
Annotation
The annotation was produced as described by Wudarski et al. (2017) .
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Key Publications
- Wudarski J, Simanov D, Ustyantsev K, de Mulder K, Grelling M, Grudniewska M, Beltman F, Glazenburg L, Demircan T, Wunderer J, Qi W, Vizoso DB, Weissert PM, Olivieri D, Mouton S, Guryev V, Aboobaker A, Schärer L, Ladurner P, Berezikov E. Efficient transgenesis and annotated genome sequence of the regenerative flatworm model Macrostomum lignano. Nat Commun, 2017;8(1):2120
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Assembly Statistics
| Assembly | Mlig_3_7, GCA_002269645.1 |
| Strain | DV1 |
| Database Version | WBPS19 |
| Genome Size | 764,410,778 |
| Data Source | University Medical Center Groningen |
| Annotation Version | 2018-05-WormBase |
Gene counts
| Coding genes | 49,013 |
| Non coding genes | 9 |
| Small non coding genes | 9 |
| Gene transcripts | 49,022 |
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