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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Voskoboynik A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3699833 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
eLife 20130702
Botryllus schlosseri is a colonial urochordate that follows the chordate plan of development following sexual reproduction, but invokes a stem cell-mediated budding program during subsequent rounds of asexual reproduction. As urochordates are considered to be the closest living invertebrate relatives of vertebrates, they are ideal subjects for whole genome sequence analyses. Using a novel method for high-throughput sequencing of eukaryotic genomes, we sequenced and assembled 580 Mbp of the B. sc ...[more]