Montipora cactus is a plating to encrusting scleractinian coral (family Acroporidae) distributed across shallow Indo-Pacific reef environments, forming thin, irregularly spreading plates with characteristic verricose (warty) coenosteum surface texture. The genus Montipora is the second most species-rich scleractinian genus and a dominant component of Indo-Pacific reef flat communities. Genomic resources for Montipora species are essential for comparative studies of reef-building coral diversification given their ecological importance across the Indo-Pacific.
| Class | Species | NCBI Taxonomy ID | Assembly Level | GenBank Assembly | Assembly Name | Genome Size (Mb) | WGS Accession | Submitter | BioProject |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hexacorallia | Montipora cactus | 246299 | Scaffold | GCA_014634245.1 | Mcac_1.0 | 622.5 | BLFO01 | Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo | PRJDB8519 |
| Chromosome Number | Scaffold Number | Contig Number | Protein Number | Protein-Coding Gene Number | Contig N50 | Scaffold N50 | GC content (%) | BUSCO completeness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 4925 | 43554 | 21,983 | 21,983 | 26103 | 898511 | 39.5 | C:93.3%[S:92.0%,D:1.3%],F:5.2%,M:1.5% |
| Title | Journal | Pubmed ID |
|---|---|---|
| Corrigendum to: Eighteen Coral Genomes Reveal the Evolutionary Origin of Acropora Strategies to Accommodate Environmental Changes | Molecular Biology and Evolution | 34151991 |
