Tetrahymena thermophila Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Tetrahymena thermophila

Tetrahymena thermophila is a species of Ciliophora in the family Tetrahymenidae. It is a free living protozoon and occurs in fresh water.

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Assembly

The shotgun sequencing, assembly and analysis of the MAC genome of T. thermophila, results in approximately 104 Mb in length and composed of approximately 225 chromosomes and is available from the EMBL/Genbank/DDBJ databases under the accession GCA_000372725.1.

Annotation

Annotation for the Tetrahymena thermophila genome has been derived from annotation submitted to the EMBL/Genbank/DDBJ databases; and enhanced by importing data from additional sources, principally UniProtKB and GOA. Non coding RNA genes have been annotated using tRNAScan-SE (Lowe, T.M. and Eddy, S.R. 1997) , RFAM (Griffiths-Jones et al 2005), and RNAmmer (Lagesen K.,et al 2007); additional analysis tools have also been applied.

References

1. Macronuclear genome sequence of the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophila, a model eukaryote.
   Eisen JA, Coyne RS, Wu M, Wu D, Thiagarajan M, Wortman JR, Badger JH, Ren Q, Amedeo P, Jones KM et al. 2006. PLoS Biol.. 4:e286.

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More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.