Ceratonova shasta (formerly Ceratomyxa shasta) is a freshwater myxozoan parasite (family Ceratomyxidae) notorious as a significant pathogen of salmonid fish in the Pacific Northwest of North America, infecting the intestinal epithelium and causing severe ceratonova disease with high mortality in juvenile fish. The parasite requires a polychaete worm (Manayunkia occidentalis) as an alternate host to complete its life cycle in rivers such as the Klamath and Trinity Rivers. It is a fish pathogen of major concern to salmon conservation and hatchery management. Genomic data have been generated for this species and are available in public databases, enabling comparative studies of cnidarian evolution and ecology.
| Class | Species | NCBI Taxonomy ID | Assembly Level | GenBank Assembly | Assembly Name | Genome Size (Mb) | WGS Accession | Submitter | BioProject |
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| Myxozoa | Ceratonova shasta | 60662 | Scaffold | GCA_918559645.1 | Ceratonova_shasta_Velvet2015-93.fasta | 66.56 | CAKKLC01 | OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | PRJEB48361 |
| Chromosome Number | Scaffold Number | Contig Number | Protein Number | Protein-Coding Gene Number | Contig N50 | Scaffold N50 | GC content (%) | BUSCO completeness |
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| - | 14586 | 24903 | - | - | 9293 | 36279 | 24 | C:6.2%[S:6.1%,D:0.2%],F:1.2%,M:92.6% |
