About Morbakka virulenta

Morbakka virulenta is a cubozoan box jellyfish (family Chiropsalmidae) found in coastal waters of the Indo-Pacific including Japan and Southeast Asia, possessing multiple tentacles per corner of the cube-shaped bell bearing thousands of nematocysts capable of delivering painful and potentially dangerous stings. Its venom contains pore-forming toxins that can cause cardiovascular and hemolytic effects, and stings in humans may require medical attention. The complex, camera-type eyes of cubozoans like Morbakka are a subject of active research into the evolution of sophisticated visual systems in non-vertebrates. 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
CubozoaMorbakka virulenta686327ScaffoldGCA_003991215.1MVIv1907.49RDPX01Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate UniversityPRJNA494059

 Genome Assembly Information
Chromosome NumberScaffold NumberContig NumberProtein NumberProtein-Coding Gene NumberContig N50Scaffold N50GC content (%)BUSCO completeness
-45385538624,27824,27830845217399935.5C:74.1%[S:73.1%,D:1.0%],F:9.7%,M:16.2%

 References
TitleJournalPubmed ID
Publisher Correction: Medusozoan genomes inform the evolution of the jellyfish body planNature Ecology & Evolution31048744
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