A de novo transcriptome assembly for the bath sponge Spongia officinalis, adjusting for microsymbionts.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We report a transcriptome acquisition for the bath sponge Spongia officinalis, a non-model marine organism that hosts rich symbiotic microbial communities. To this end, a pipeline was developed to efficiently separate between bacterial expressed genes from those of eukaryotic origin. The transcriptome was produced to support the assessment of gene expression and, thus, the response of the sponge, to elevated temperatures, replicating conditions currently occurring in its native habitat.

Data description

We describe the assembled transcriptome along with the bioinformatic pipeline used to discriminate between signals of metazoan and prokaryotic origin. The pipeline involves standard read pre-processing steps and incorporates extra analyses to identify and filter pr

SUBMITTER: Manousaki T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6921574 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature