DOI: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.27573.1 ISSN: 2398-502X

The chromosomal genome sequence of the blushing star coral, Stephanocoenia intersepta (Lamarck, 1816) (Scleractinia: Astrocoeniidae) and its associated microbial metagenome sequences

D. Abigail Renegar, Jose Victor Lopez, Nina Pruzinsky, Graeme Oatley, Elizabeth Sinclair, Eerik Aunin, Noah Gettle, Camilla Santos, Michael Paulini, Haoyu Niu, Victoria McKenna, Rebecca O’Brien, , , , ,
We present a genome assembly from a specimen of Stephanocoenia intersepta (blushing star coral; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Scleractinia; Astrocoeniidae). The assembly contains two haplotypes with total lengths of 656.21 megabases and 656.55 megabases. Most of haplotype 1 (94.84%) is scaffolded into 13 chromosomal pseudomolecules. Haplotype 2 was assembled to scaffold level. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled, with a length of 19.46 kilobases. Gene annotation of this assembly by Ensembl identified 26,627 protein-coding genes. From the metagenome data, we recovered five bins, of which one was a high-quality metagenome-assembled genome.