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List Of Sequenced Animal Genomes
This list of sequenced animal genomes contains animal species for which complete genome sequences have been assembled, annotated and published. Substantially complete draft genomes are included, but not partial genome sequences or organelle-only sequences. Porifera * ''Amphimedon queenslandica'', a sponge (2009) * '' Stylissa carteri'' (2016) * ''Ephydatia muelleri'' (2020) * ''Xestospongia testudinaria'' (2016) Ctenophora * ''Mnemiopsis leidyi'' (Ctenophora), (order Lobata) (2012/2013) * '' Hormiphora californensis'' (Ctenophora) (2021 ) * ''Pleurobrachia bachei'' (Ctenophora) (2014) Placozoa * ''Trichoplax adhaerens'', a Placozoan (2008) * ''Hoilungia hongkongensis'', nov. gen H13 Placozoan (2018) Cnidaria * ''Hydra vulgaris'', (previously ''Hydra magnipapillata''), a model hydrozoan (2010) * ''Nematostella vectensis'', a model anemone ( starlet sea anemone) (2007) * ''Aiptasia pallida'', a sea anemone (2015) * ''Acropora digitifera'', a coral (2011) * Renilla muelleri, an o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amphimedon Queenslandica
''Amphimedon queenslandica'' (formerly known as ''Reniera'' sp.) is a sponge native to the Great Barrier Reef. Its genome has been sequenced. It has been the subject of various studies on the evolution of metazoan development. ''A. queenslandica'' was first discovered in 1998 on Heron Island Reef by Sally Leys when looking for sponges with larvae to study polarity, and was formally described by John Hooper and Rob van Soest in 2006. Like most sponges it has a biphasic life cycle, passing through a planktonic phase whilst a larva, but later becoming a benthic dweller. It is hermaphroditic, and reproduces via spermcast spawning, meaning it releases sperm into water but retains eggs, which are fertilised internally. The embryos develop in brood chambers until they reach a certain size, then disperse as parenchymella larvae. During this larval stage, they have a strong preference for darkness. The sponge is difficult or impossible to maintain in captivity. Genetics The genome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aiptasia Pallida
''Exaiptasia'' is a genus of sea anemone in the family Aiptasiidae, native to shallow waters in the temperate western Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. It is monotypic with a single species, ''Exaiptasia diaphana,'' and commonly known as the brown anemone, glass anemone, pale anemone, or simply as Aiptasia. Description ''Exaiptasia diaphana'' has a slender brownish or whitish translucent column up to long, girdled by two rows of slits through which acontia (threads armed with nematocysts) can protrude. The oral disc, up to wide, has a central mouth surrounded by a whorl of up to 96 variable-length tentacles; a few of these are extra long, the majority are fairly long and a few are short. Distribution and habitat ''Exaiptasia diaphana'' is a common species of sea anemone occurring in the western Atlantic Ocean, round the coast of the United States from Maine to Florida, and throughout the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. It occurs in a range of hab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myxobolus Honghuensis
''Myxobolus'' is a genus of myxozoa that includes important parasites of fish like ''Myxobolus cerebralis''. The genus is polyphyletic, with members scattered throughout the myxozoa. Some stages of ''Myxobolus'' species were previously thought to be different organisms entirely, but are now united in this group. Species Source: World Register of Marine Species * '' Myxobolus acanthogobii'' Hoshina, 1952 * '' Myxobolus acanthopagri'' Lom & Dyková, 1994 * '' Myxobolus achmerovi'' Shulman, 1966 * '' Myxobolus acutus'' (Fujita, 1912) * '' Myxobolus adeli'' Yurakhno & Ovcharenko, 2014 * '' Myxobolus aeglefini'' Auerbach, 1906 * '' Myxobolus aisanensis'' Chen in Chen & Ma, 1998 * '' Myxobolus aldrichetti'' Su & White, 1994 * '' Myxobolus algonquinensis'' Xiao & Desser, 1997 *'' Myxobolus aligarhensis'' Bhatt & Siddiqui, 1964 * ''Myxobolus anatolicus'' Pekmezci, Yardimci, Yilmaz & Polat, 2014 * '' Myxobolus arabicus'' Kardousha & El-Tantawy, 2002 * '' Myxobolus asymmetricus'' (Parisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orbicella Faveolata
''Orbicella faveolata'', commonly known as mountainous star coral, is a colonial stony coral in the family Merulinidae. ''Orbicella faveolata'' is native to the coral coast of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico and is listed as "endangered" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. ''O. faveolata'' was formerly known as ''Montastraea faveolata''. Description Colonies of this coral are solid and very large, forming a mound with a skirt. The surface is smooth and undulating, with small lumps, bulges or lobes. The corallites, the stony cups in which the polyps sit, are about in diameter and cover the entire surface of the coral. The colour is usually a pale brown, yellowish green and grey but may be deep brown, with fluorescent green highlights. This coral is part of a species complex including the closely related ''Orbicella annularis'' and ''Orbicella franksi'', but the former has more distinct nodules or small columns and the latter has a more irregular, lump ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pocillopora Damicornis
''Pocillopora damicornis'', commonly known as the cauliflower coral or lace coral, is a species of stony coral in the family Pocilloporidae. It is native to tropical and subtropical parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Description ''P. damicornis'' is a colonial coral and can grow into clumps up to high. It is distinguishable from other members of the genus by the verrucae (wart-like growths) on its surface being more irregularly arranged. It is more branched than the otherwise similar '' P. verrucosa''. Its form varies according to its habitat and is more open and branched in calm positions and more compact on the upper parts of reefs where water movement is greater. Its colour varies and may be greenish, pink, yellowish-brown or pale brown. Distribution and habitat Cauliflower coral is native to the tropical and subtropical parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Its wide range extends from East Africa and the Red Sea to Japan, Indonesia, Australia, Hawaii, Easter Island, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hydrozoan Jellyfish
Hydrozoa (hydrozoans; ) are a taxonomic class of individually very small, predatory animals, some solitary and some colonial, most of which inhabit saline water. The colonies of the colonial species can be large, and in some cases the specialized individual animals cannot survive outside the colony. A few genera within this class live in freshwater habitats. Hydrozoans are related to jellyfish and corals and belong to the phylum Cnidaria. Some examples of hydrozoans are the freshwater jelly (''Craspedacusta sowerbyi''), freshwater polyps (''Hydra''), ''Obelia'', Portuguese man o' war (''Physalia physalis''), chondrophores (Porpitidae), "air fern" (''Sertularia argentea''), and pink-hearted hydroids (''Tubularia''). Anatomy Most hydrozoan species include both a polypoid and a medusoid stage in their lifecycles, although a number of them have only one or the other. For example, ''Hydra'' has no medusoid stage, while '' Liriope'' lacks the polypoid stage. Polyps The hydroid for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clytia Hemisphaerica
''Clytia hemisphaerica'' is a small hydrozoan-group cnidarian, about 1 cm in diameter, that is found in the Mediterranean Sea and the North-East Atlantic Ocean. ''Clytia'' has the free-swimming jellyfish form typical of the Hydrozoa, as well as vegetatively propagating polyps. ''Clytia hemisphaerica'' has emerged as a promising model organism as its life cycle, small size, and relatively easy upkeep make it conducive to experimental manipulation and maintenance in a laboratory setting. Some examples of studies already conducted in ''Clytia'' include those looking at embryonic development, differential patterns of gene expression during life stages, and wound healing. ''Clytia''’s genome was sequenced in full in March 2019. Anatomy and life cycle ''Clytia'' ''hemisphaerica'' reproduces sexually. Ovulated eggs are fertilized externally and take approximately 24 hours to develop into planula. The ciliated planula will swim freely until the proper external cues, for insta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aurelia Aurita
''Aurelia aurita'' (also called the common jellyfish, moon jellyfish, moon jelly or saucer jelly) is a species of the genus ''Aurelia''. All species in the genus are very similar, and it is difficult to identify ''Aurelia'' medusae without genetic sampling; most of what follows applies equally to all species of the genus. The most common method used to identify the species consists of selecting a jellyfish from a harbour using a device, usually a drinking glass and then photographing the subject. This means that they can be released in to the harbour shortly afterwards and return to their natural habitat. The jellyfish is almost entirely translucent, usually about in diameter, and can be recognized by its four horseshoe-shaped gonads, easily seen through the top of the bell. It feeds by collecting medusae, plankton, and mollusks with its tentacles, and bringing them into its body for digestion. It is capable of only limited motion, and drifts with the current, even when swimming. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stylophora Pistillata
''Stylophora pistillata'', commonly known as hood coral or smooth cauliflower coral, is a species of stony coral in the family Pocilloporidae. It is native to the Indo-Pacific region and is commonly used in scientific investigations. Description ''Stylophora pistillata'' has broad, blunt-ended branches, and colonies become thicker and more submassive as they grow. The maximum diameter of a colony is about . The corallites (stony cups from which the polyps emerge) are conical or hooded and are sunk beneath the general surface. The columella (central column of the corallite) is solid and prominent, and the septa (stony plates forming the corallite wall) may be fused to the columella. There are six primary septa and sometimes six secondary ones. Colonies can be cream, pink, bluish or green. Distribution ''Stylophora pistillata'' is widely distributed in the tropical and subtropical Indo-Pacific region. Its range extends from Madagascar, East Africa, the Red Sea and the Persian Gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Octocorallia
Octocorallia (also known as Alcyonaria) is a class of Anthozoa comprising around 3,000 species of water-based organisms formed of colonial polyps with 8-fold symmetry. It includes the blue coral, soft corals, sea pens, and gorgonians (sea fans and sea whips) within three orders: Alcyonacea, Helioporacea, and Pennatulacea. These organisms have an internal skeleton secreted by mesoglea and polyps with eight tentacles and eight mesentaries. As with all Cnidarians these organisms have a complex life cycle including a motile phase when they are considered plankton and later characteristic sessile phase. Octocorals have existed at least since the Ordovician period, as shown by Maurits Lindström's findings in the 1970s, however recent work has shown a possible Cambrian origin. Biology Octocorals resemble the stony corals in general appearance and in the size of their polyps, but lack the distinctive stony skeleton. Also unlike the stony corals, each polyp has only eight tentacle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Pansy
The sea pansy, ''Renilla reniformis,'' is a species of colonial cnidarian in the family Renillidae, part of an octocoral subclass of Anthozoa that inhabit an expansive range of environments. It is native to warm continental shelf waters of the Western Hemisphere. It is frequently found washed ashore on North East Florida beaches following northeasterly winds or rough surf conditions. It also can often be found living intertidally completely buried in the sand. Its predator is the striped sea slug, ''Armina tigrina''. The sea pansy is a collection of polyps with different forms and functions. A single, giant polyp up to two inches in diameter forms the anchoring stem (peduncle). This peduncle can be distended to better anchor the colony in the substrate. The pansy-like body bears many small, anemone-like feeding polyps. A cluster of tentacleless polyps form an outlet valve that releases water to deflate the colony. If the colony is on a sand bar at low tide, it usually defl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
