[Coral-List] Aiptasia symbiotic sea anemone genome available and published

[Christian R Voolstra]

Dear friends and colleagues,

allow me to point you to our open access manuscript that details sequencing, annotation, and analysis of the Aiptasia genome that we believe can serve as a model for coral symbiosis.

In this manuscript we discovered a novel and expanded cnidarian-specific family of putative pattern-recognition receptors that might be involved in the animal-algal interactions and extensive integration of genes of prokaryotic origin, including genes for antimicrobial peptides, that presumably reflect an intimate association of the animal-algal pair with its prokaryotic microbiome.

The open access paper is available here:
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/08/27/1513318112.abstract <http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/08/27/1513318112.abstract>

The genome assembly, gene and protein models, and a BLAST server and genome browser can be accessed and downloaded here:
http://aiptasia.reefgenomics.org/ <http://aiptasia.reefgenomics.org/>

We hope that this resource will be helpful in elucidating the molecular and cellular biology underlying the coral-algal symbiosis and its susceptibility or resilience to stress.

Best,
Christian

Christian R Voolstra
Associate Professor of Marine Science
PI Reef Genomics
Red Sea Research Center
KAUST University


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