Kudoa neothunni is a myxozoan parasite (family Kudoidae) infecting the muscle of yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) and related scombrids, causing post-mortem muscle liquefaction and rendering infected fish unmarketable in sashimi and fresh fish markets. Its characteristic spores are small and quadrangular, deposited in muscle pseudocysts that break down after the fish dies. Economic losses from Kudoa-mediated post-harvest muscle deterioration are significant in tuna fisheries worldwide. 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 | Kudoa neothunni | 1134596 | Chromosome | GCA_964304625.1 | jmKudNeot1.1 | 38.38 | - | WELLCOME SANGER INSTITUTE | PRJEB82086 |
| Chromosome Number | Scaffold Number | Contig Number | Protein Number | Protein-Coding Gene Number | Contig N50 | Scaffold N50 | GC content (%) | BUSCO completeness |
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| 3 | 3 | 160 | - | - | 427348 | 12040071 | 30.5 | C:9.8%[S:9.4%,D:0.5%],F:1.9%,M:88.3% |
