Weishan Zhao, Jie Xiong, Ming Li, Xialian Bu, Chuanqi Jiang, Guangying Wang, Jing Zhang, Wenxiang Li, Hong Zou, Wei Miao, Kai Chen, Guitang Wang
Balantidium ctenopharyngodoni is identified as the sole ciliate species that exclusively resides within the hindgut of grass carp with high prevalence and intensity. In this study, the successful cultivation of B. ctenopharyngodoni enabled us to collect enough cells for genome sequencing. Consequently, we acquired a high-quality genome assembly spanning 68.66 Mb, encompassing a total of 22,334 nanochromosomes. Furthermore, we predicted 29,348 protein-coding genes, and 95.5% of them was supported by the RNA-seq data...
March 28, 2024: Scientific Data