Myxobolus squamalis is a myxozoan parasite (family Myxobolidae) infecting the scales and skin of salmonid fish in the Pacific Northwest of North America, causing squamatosis characterized by scale pitting and erosion in affected fish. The parasite produces distinctive spores embedded in scale tissue and transmitted between fish hosts and alternate oligochaete worm hosts. Understanding the biology of scale-infecting myxozoans is relevant to aquaculture health 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 | Myxobolus squamalis | 59785 | Contig | GCA_010108815.2 | TAU_Msqu_1.1 | 41.65 | QWKW01 | Tel-Aviv University | PRJNA485581 |
| Chromosome Number | Scaffold Number | Contig Number | Protein Number | Protein-Coding Gene Number | Contig N50 | Scaffold N50 | GC content (%) | BUSCO completeness |
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| - | 37921 | 37921 | 5729 | 5712 | 1286 | 1286 | 27.5 | C:5.5%[S:5.3%,D:0.2%],F:2.9%,M:91.7% |
| Title | Journal | Pubmed ID |
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| A cnidarian parasite of salmon (Myxozoa: Henneguya) lacks a mitochondrial genome | PNAS | 32094163 |
