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ArticleG3 (Bethesda, Md.)2026

A chromosome-level reference genome for the colonial marine hydrozoan Podocoryna americana.

E Sally Chang, Michael T Connelly, Matthew Travert, Sofia N Barreira, Alberto M Rivera, Amanda M Katzer, Reynold Yu, Paulyn Cartwright, Andreas D Baxevanis

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E Sally ChangCenter for Genomics and Data Science Research, Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,MD 20892, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-4086-6776
Michael T ConnellyCenter for Genomics and Data Science Research, Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,MD 20892, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2084-4222
Matthew TravertCentre for Chromosome Biology, School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, University of Galway, Galway H91 W2TY, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-6014-3578
Sofia N BarreiraCenter for Genomics and Data Science Research, Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,MD 20892, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8450-135X
Alberto M RiveraCenter for Genomics and Data Science Research, Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,MD 20892, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-3759-8224
Amanda M KatzerCenter for Genomics and Data Science Research, Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,MD 20892, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-9242-5393
Reynold YuCenter for Genomics and Data Science Research, Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,MD 20892, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8093-254X
Paulyn CartwrightDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-8174-6933
Andreas D BaxevanisCenter for Genomics and Data Science Research, Division of Intramural Research, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda,MD 20892, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5370-0014

Funding

Phylogenomic Studies on the Evolution of Morphological ComplexityZIAHG000140 · NHGRI · NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI BAXEVANIS, ANDREAS · 2009 to 2025
$11.4M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA HG000140Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health ZIA HG000140NIHUnited States GovernmentU.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Abstract

Cnidarians are important models for studying the evolution of animal development, regeneration, cell type differentiation, and allorecognition. The marine hydrozoan Podocoryna americana is related to the well-established model species Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus. Although both species possess a sessile polyp stage, P. americana differs in that it also has a free-swimming medusa (jellyfish) stage in its life cycle. We used a combination of PacBio CLR long-read and Illumina Hi-C short-read genome sequencing to produce a chromosome-level genome assembly for P. americana. The final assembly is 327 Mbp in total length with 17 chromosome-scale scaffolds representing 98% of the assembly. Comprehensive functional annotation with BRAKER3 generated a total of 19,085 predicted protein-coding genes in this assembly, covering 91.2% of the metazoan BUSCO gene set. Comparison of the P. americana genome to other chromosome-level cnidarian genome assemblies revealed a high degree of macrosynteny conservation, and ortholog identification and gene family evolution analysis identified 522 expanded and 1,026 contracted gene families in P. americana. This high-quality, chromosome-level genome assembly of P. americana will be an invaluable resource for researchers studying the evolution of development, regeneration, and allorecognition in cnidarians and other metazoans.

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ChromosomesGenomeGenomicsHydrozoaAnimalsAquatic OrganismsEvolution, MolecularMolecular Sequence AnnotationPhylogenyevolutiongenome assemblyHi-CmacrosyntenyPodocoryna

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PMID42345118
PMCPMC13439924

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