Transcriptome sequencing and annotation of the polychaete Hermodice carunculata (Annelida, Amphinomidae).

ABSTRACT:

Background

The amphinomid polychaete Hermodice carunculata is a cosmopolitan and ecologically important omnivore in coral reef ecosystems, preying on a diverse suite of reef organisms and potentially acting as a vector for coral disease. While amphinomids are a key group for determining the root of the Annelida, their phylogenetic position has been difficult to resolve, and their publically available genomic data was scarce.

Results

We performed deep transcriptome sequencing (Illumina HiSeq) and profiling on Hermodice carunculata collected in the Western Atlantic Ocean. We focused this study on 58,454 predicted Open Reading Frames (ORFs) of genes longer than 200 amino acids for our homology search, and Gene Ontology (GO) terms and InterPro IDs were assigned to 32,500 of thes

SUBMITTER: Mehr S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4462082 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature