About Bergia sp. 'catenularis'

Bergia sp. 'catenularis' is an undescribed zoantharian (order Zoantharia) tentatively assigned to the genus Bergia, characterized by chain-like or catenulate colony growth in tropical reef environments. Zoantharians are soft-bodied colonial anthozoans closely related to corallimorpharians and scleractinian corals, forming major components of tropical reef communities. Members of this lineage may produce palytoxin or related compounds as potent chemical defenses. Genomic data have been generated for this species and are available in public databases, enabling comparative studies of cnidarian evolution and ecology.

 Basic Information
ClassSpeciesNCBI Taxonomy IDAssembly LevelGenBank AssemblyAssembly NameGenome Size (Mb)WGS AccessionSubmitterBioProject
HexacoralliaBergia sp. 'catenularis'2608284ScaffoldGCA_025434825.1ASM2543482v1481.73JANRMR01Iridian GenomesPRJNA662740

 Genome Assembly Information
Chromosome NumberScaffold NumberContig NumberProtein NumberProtein-Coding Gene NumberContig N50Scaffold N50GC content (%)BUSCO completeness
-259229276452--2795334637.5C:23.9%[S:23.7%,D:0.2%],F:31.8%,M:44.2%

 References
TitleJournalPubmed ID
Genome sizes and repeatome evolution in zoanthariansPeerJ37868064
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