Biologyarticle2026-09-21

The genome sequences of the diplonemid protist Diplonema japonicum YPF1604 and its bacterial endosymbionts Ca. Cytomitobacter primus and Ca. Nesciobacter abundans

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Abstract

We present a genome assembly of the diplonemid Diplonema japonicum YPF1604 (Discoba; Euglenozoa; Diplonemea; Diplonemidae). The genome sequence is 62.30 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 118 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The multipartite mitochondrial genome was also assembled. The genome sequences of two bacterial endosymbionts, Ca. Cytomitobacter primus and Ca. Cytomitobacter primus, were also assembled.

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Authors: Daria Tashyreva, Drahomíra Faktorová, Eva Stříbrná, Aleš Horák, Julius Lukeš, John M. Archibald, Graeme Oatley, Elizabeth Sinclair, Eerik Aunin, Noah Gettle, Camilla Santos, Michael Paulini, Haoyu Niu, Victoria McKenna, Richard L. O’Brien, EBI Aquatic Symbiosis Genomics Data Portal Team, Aquatic Symbiosis Genomics Project Leadership

Institutions: Dalhousie University, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Biology Centre, Institute of Parasitology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences