Schmidtea mediterranea
BioProject PRJNA12585 | Data Source McDonnell Genome Institute | Taxonomy ID 79327
About Schmidtea mediterranea
The freshwater planarian Schmidtea mediterranea is commonly used as a model for regeneration and development of tissues, due to its ability to regenerate large portions of missing body parts.
There are 2 alternative genome projects for Schmidtea mediterranea available in WormBase ParaSite: PRJNA885486 PRJNA885486
Genome Assembly & Annotation
Assembly
The S. mediterranea genome has been sequenced by the Stowers Institute and the Genome Institute at Washington University. The assembly version represented is SmedGD_v1.3 from SmedGD, as described by Robb et al (2007).
Annotation
The original gene predictions were made by the Stowers Institute, as described by Robb et al (2007). The gene models have since been iteratively improved. The version represented here is v1.3 from SmedGD.
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Key Publications
- Robb SM, Ross E, Sánchez Alvarado A. SmedGD: the Schmidtea mediterranea genome database. Nucleic Acids Res, 2008;36(database issue):D599-606
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Assembly Statistics
| Assembly | SmedGD_c1.3 |
| Strain | S2F2 |
| Database Version | WBPS18 |
| Genome Size | 901,626,601 |
| Data Source | McDonnell Genome Institute |
| Annotation Version | 2014-05-WormBase |
Gene counts
| Coding genes | 29,850 |
| Gene transcripts | 29,850 |
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