About Parazoanthus darwini

Parazoanthus darwini is a zoantharian (family Parazoanthidae) found in the eastern Atlantic and surrounding islands, named in honor of Charles Darwin and forming colonial encrusting polyps on sponges and hard substrates. Like other Parazoanthus species, it produces parazoanthine alkaloids rather than palytoxin-class compounds, reflecting the distinct secondary metabolite chemistry of this zoantharian family. The species contributes to understanding the biogeography of zoantharians in the eastern Atlantic. 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
HexacoralliaParazoanthus darwini513426ScaffoldGCA_025403605.1ASM2540360v1523.77JAOBYF01Iridian GenomesPRJNA662981

 Genome Assembly Information
Chromosome NumberScaffold NumberContig NumberProtein NumberProtein-Coding Gene NumberContig N50Scaffold N50GC content (%)BUSCO completeness
-795642795921--2028203140C:17.3%[S:17.2%,D:0.1%],F:32.8%,M:49.9%

 References
TitleJournalPubmed ID
Genome sizes and repeatome evolution in zoanthariansPeerJ37868064
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