Sphaerospora molnari is a freshwater myxozoan parasite (family Sphaerosporidae) infecting cyprinid fish, particularly common carp (Cyprinus carpio), in European freshwater systems and causing sphaerosporosis characterized by kidney and gill pathology in juvenile fish. Like other sphaerosporeans, it alternates between a fish host where it develops myxospores and an alternate oligochaete worm host producing actinospores. It is an economically significant pathogen in European carp aquaculture. 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 | Sphaerospora molnari | 182359 | Contig | GCA_046867295.1 | ASM4686729v1 | 38.31 | JBJNVR01 | Biology Centre, CAS | PRJNA1193866 |
| Chromosome Number | Scaffold Number | Contig Number | Protein Number | Protein-Coding Gene Number | Contig N50 | Scaffold N50 | GC content (%) | BUSCO completeness |
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| - | 40 | 40 | 14,957 | 14,957 | 2792954 | 2792954 | 31.5 | 64% |
| Title | Journal | Pubmed ID |
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| The genome assembly of Sphaerospora molnari provides novel insights into the rapid evolution and diversification of unique lineage-specific gene groups in myxozoan parasites | bioRxiv | Link |
