Namrata Ahuja, Xuwen Cao, Darrin T Schultz, Natasha Picciani, Arianna Lord, Shengyuan Shao, Kejue Jia, David R Burdick, Steven H D Haddock, Yuanning Li, Casey W Dunn
Siphonophores (Cnidaria:Hydrozoa) are abundant predators found throughout the ocean and are important constituents of the global zooplankton community. They range in length from a few centimeters to tens of meters. They are gelatinous, fragile, and difficult to collect, so many aspects of the biology of these roughly 200 species remain poorly understood. To survey siphonophore genome diversity, we performed Illumina sequencing of 32 species sampled broadly across the phylogeny. Sequencing depth was sufficient to estimate nuclear genome size from k-mer spectra in 6 specimens, ranging from 0...
March 19, 2024: Genome Biology and Evolution