Genome

Nematostella vectensis (starlet sea anemone) The starlet sea anemone lives in brackish lagoons. Lineage: Eukaryota[11633]; Metazoa[5514]; Cnidaria[124]; Anthozoa[87]; Hexacorallia[79]; Actiniaria[13]; Edwardsiidae[1]; Nematostella[1]; Nematostella vectensis[1]

Nematostella vectensis , the starlet sea anemone, has a very simple body plan as it lacks a head and a brain, and has a single orifice for ingestion and excretion. It is gaining in popularity as an important model system to study many biological processes since the sequence for its genome is now available.

Summary Sequence data:  genome assemblies: 3; sequence reads: 2  (See  Genome Assembly and Annotation report) Statistics:  median total length (Mb): 269.418  median protein count: 28575  median GC%: 40.7193 NCBI Annotation Release:  101 Publications (limited to 20 most recent records) Genes encoding cytoplasmic intermediate filament proteins of vertebrates revisited: identification of a cytoplasmic intermediate filament protein in the sea anemone Nematostella. Zimek A, et al. Eur J Cell Biol 2012 Oct Sea anemone genome reveals ancestral eumetazoan gene repertoire and genomic organization. Putnam NH, et al. Science 2007 Jul 6  Representative (genome information for reference and representative genomes) Reference genome:   Nematostella vectensis jaNemVect1.1 Submitter: WELLCOME SANGER INSTITUTE Loc Type Name RefSeq INSDC Size (Mb) GC% Protein rRNA tRNA Other RNA Gene Pseudogene Chr 1 NC_064034.1 OW051985.1 22.17 40.9 2,829 5 1,205 440 3,263 34 Chr 2 NC_064035.1 OW051986.1 22.03 40.8 3,194 5 7 389 2,104 15 Chr 3 NC_064036.1 OW051987.1 20.79 40.8 2,926 - 336 400 2,289 17 Chr 4 NC_064037.1 OW051988.1 19.32 40.8 2,597 65 773 563 2,817 25 Chr 5 NC_064038.1 OW051989.1 19 40.8 1,783 3,488 608 409 5,986 507 Chr 6 NC_064039.1 OW051990.1 18.1 41.0 2,578 - 126 341 1,803 15 Chr 7 NC_064040.1 OW051991.1 17.87 40.7 2,229 12 1,831 339 3,479 16 Chr 8 NC_064041.1 OW051992.1 17.36 41.0 1,757 312 922 930 3,162 44 Chr 9 NC_064042.1 OW051993.1 17.33 41.1 2,163 2 398 346 1,918 8 Chr 10 NC_064043.1 OW051994.1 16.59 40.5 1,977 6 203 278 1,640 9 Chr 11 NC_064044.1 OW051995.1 16.41 40.4 1,569 4 1,184 276 2,417 16 Chr 12 NC_064045.1 OW051996.1 16.39 40.6 1,867 53 511 1,018 2,700 17 Chr 13 NC_064046.1 OW051997.1 16.14 40.3 1,795 - 646 336 2,063 18 Chr 14 NC_064047.1 OW051998.1 15.37 41.0 1,629 49 776 269 1,987 10 Chr 15 NC_064048.1 OW051999.1 13.72 40.0 1,449 59 9 244 1,061 14 MT - OW052000.1 0.02 39.2 - - - - - - Un - . - 0.83 36.4 28 3 36 10 73 1 Chromosomes Click on chromosome name to open Genome Data Viewer External Resources Animal Diversity Web CHORI BAC library JGI StellaBase The Starlet Anemone Web Resource UC Irvine, BAC library