Oscheius tipulae
BioProject PRJEB15512 | Data Source University of Edinburgh | Taxonomy ID 141969
About Oscheius tipulae
Oscheius tipulae is a free-living androdioecious species of nematode, characterized by the coexistence of males and hermaphrodites. It is used as a satellite developmental genetic model organism to study vulva formation.
There is 1 alternative genome project for Oscheius tipulae available in WormBase ParaSite: PRJNA644888
Genome Assembly & Annotation
Assembly
The genome of O. tipulae was assembled by Georgios Koutsovolous and Fabrice Besnard from the Blaxter Lab in University of Edinburgh, using a combination of short-read and mate-pair data, as described in Besnard et al. (2017).
Annotation
The genome was annotated using MAKER2 and Augustus, as described in Besnard et al. (2017).
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Key Publications
- Besnard F, Koutsovoulos G, Dieudonné S, Blaxter M, Félix MA. Toward Universal Forward Genetics: Using a Draft Genome Sequence of the Nematode <i>Oscheius tipulae</i> To Identify Mutations Affecting Vulva Development. Genetics, 2017;206(4):1747-1761
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Assembly Statistics
| Assembly | Oscheius_tipulae_assembly_v2, GCA_900184235.1 |
| Database Version | WBPS18 |
| Genome Size | 59,468,623 |
| Data Source | University of Edinburgh |
| Annotation Version | 2018-05-WormBase |
Gene counts
| Coding genes | 14,626 |
| Pseudogenes | 312 |
| Gene transcripts | 14,938 |
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