The genome sequence of Aplidium turbinatum (Savigny 1816), a colonial sea squirt

John Bishop; Joanna Harley; Robert Mrowicki; Marine Biological Association Genome Acquisition Lab; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17785.1

The genome sequence of Aplidium turbinatum (Savigny 1816), a colonial sea squirt

Wellcome Open Res. 2022 Mar 22:7:106. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.17785.1. eCollection 2022.

Authors

John Bishop¹, Joanna Harley¹, Robert Mrowicki^{1

2}; Marine Biological Association Genome Acquisition Lab; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

Affiliations

¹ Marine Biological Association, Plymouth, Devon, UK.
² Natural History Museum, London, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual Aplidium turbinatum (Chordata; Ascidiacea; Aplousobranchia; Polyclinidae). The genome sequence is 605 megabases in span. The majority of the assembly (99.98%) is scaffolded into 18 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The complete mitochondrial genome was also assembled and is 18.4 kilobases in length.

Keywords: Aplidium turbinatum; Ascidiacea; chromosomal; genome sequence; sea squirt.

Grants and funding

WT_/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom