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Ephemera danica

    Summary
    Type
    organism
    Genus
    Ephemera
    Species
    danica
    Common Name
    Mayfly
    Description

    The mayfly Ephemera danica occurs in Central Europe in creeks and rivers with a high water quality. Its larvae feed on detritus. Its adults do not ingest any more and only live 2-4 days. During this time, the adult mayflies have to find a mating partner, mate, and deposit eggs.

    Ephemeroptera are considered as one of the earliest lineages of flying insects. As such, mayflies play an important role for understanding the evolutionary roots of flight, one of the most important and dramatic steps in the evolutionary history of insects. Despite their highly interesting systematic position, genomic data of mayflies are scarce. The i5K initiative therefore decided to sequence the genome of a mayfly.

    Data were generated by the Baylor College of Medicine's i5k pilot project(link is external).

    View the Baylor College of Medicine's data sharing policy(link is external).

     

    Publication
    Thomas GWC, Dohmen E, Hughes DST, Murali SC, Poelchau M, Glastad K, Anstead CA, Ayoub NA, Batterham P, Bellair M, Binford GJ, Chao H, Chen YH, Childers C, Dinh H, Doddapaneni HV, Duan JJ, Dugan S, Esposito LA, Friedrich M, Garb J, Gasser RB, Goodisman MAD, Gundersen-Rindal DE, Han Y, Handler AM, Hatakeyama M, Hering L, Hunter WB, Ioannidis P, Jayaseelan JC, Kalra D, Khila A, Korhonen PK, Lee CE, Lee SL, Li Y, Lindsey ARI, Mayer G, McGregor AP, McKenna DD, Misof B, Munidasa M, Munoz-Torres M, Muzny DM, Niehuis O, Osuji-Lacy N, Palli SR, Panfilio KA, Pechmann M, Perry T, Peters RS, Poynton HC, Prpic NM, Qu J, Rotenberg D, Schal C, Schoville SD, Scully ED, Skinner E, Sloan DB, Stouthamer R, Strand MR, Szucsich NU, Wijeratne A, Young ND, Zattara EE, Benoit JB, Zdobnov EM, Pfrender ME, Hackett KJ, Werren JH, Worley KC, Gibbs RA, Chipman AD, Waterhouse RM, Bornberg-Bauer E, Hahn MW, Richards S. Gene content evolution in the arthropods. . Genome biology. 2020 01 23; 21(1):15.
    Organism Image
    Image Credit
    Assembly Stats
    Contig N50
    55305
    GC Content
    38.16
    Scaffold N50
    599527
    Other Information
    Community Contact
    Panagiotis Provataris, German Cancer Research Center
    Analyses
    Name Program
    Ephemera danica annotations ephdan_OGSv1.0 MAKER2, manual annotations, GFF3toolkit, remap-gff3
    BCM annotation of the Ephemera danica assembly using Maker and additional analyses MAKER
    Ephemera danica genome assembly Edan_2.0 (GCA_000507165.2) AllPaths v. 35218; ATLAS-link v. 1.0; ATLAS-gapfill v. 2.2; redundans v. 0.12c
    Functional annotation of Ephemera danica ephdan OGSv1.0 AgBase functional annotation pipeline
    Whole genome assembly of Ephemera danica Baylor College of Medicine genome assembly pipeline