One high quality genome and two transcriptome datasets for new species of Mantamonas, a deep-branching eukaryote clade.

ABSTRACT: Mantamonads were long considered to represent an "orphan" lineage in the tree of eukaryotes, likely branching near the most frequently assumed position for the root of eukaryotes. Recent phylogenomic analyses have placed them as part of the "CRuMs" supergroup, along with collodictyonids and rigifilids. This supergroup appears to branch at the base of Amorphea, making it of special importance for understanding the deep evolutionary history of eukaryotes. However, the lack of representative species and complete genomic data associated with them has hampered the investigation of their biology and evolution. Here, we isolated and described two new species of mantamonads, Mantamonas vickermani sp. nov. and Mantamonas sphyraenae sp. nov., for each of which we generated transcriptomic sequence da

SUBMITTER: Blaz J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10492846 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature