Peer-reviewedCC BY 4.0Wellcome Open Research
The chromosomal genome sequence of the upside-down jellyfish, Cassiopea xamachana Bigelow, 1892 (Rhizostomeae: Cassiopeidae) and an associated microbial metagenome bin
11 affiliations
- 1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
- 2Stony Brook University Department of Ecology & Evolution, Stony Brook, New York, USA
- 3Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
- 4National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
- 5University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology, Athens, Georgia, USA
- 6Department of Mathematics, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
- 7Zoology Department, Biosciences Institute, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- 8National Coral Reef Institute, Department of Biological Sciences, Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
- 9University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado, USA
- 10NOAA Ocean Exploration Affiliate, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA
- 11Tree of Life Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, England, UK
Abstract
We present a genome assembly from a specimen of Cassiopea xamachana (upside-down jellyfish; Cnidaria; Scyphozoa; Rhizostomeae; Cassiopeidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 326.12 megabases. Most of the assembly (98.3%) is scaffolded into 20 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled, with a length of 15.34 kilobases. From the metagenome data, we recovered one medium-quality bacterial bin assigned to Endozoicomonas sp.
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BibTeX
@article{medina2026chromosomal,
title = {{The chromosomal genome sequence of the upside-down jellyfish, Cassiopea xamachana Bigelow, 1892 (Rhizostomeae: Cassiopeidae) and an associated microbial metagenome bin}},
author = {Mónica Medina and Aki Ohdera and Anthony Bellantuono and Cheryl L. Ames and Allen Collins and William Fitt and Laura Miller and André Morandini and Jose Victor Lopez and Nina Pruzinsky and Graeme Oatley and Elizabeth Sinclair and Eerik Aunin and Noah Gettle and Camilla Santos and Michael Paulini and Haoyu Niu and Victoria McKenna and Rebecca O’Brien and Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team and Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations and Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team and EBI Aquatic Symbiosis Genomics Data Portal Team and Aquatic Symbiosis Genomics Project Leadership},
journal = {Wellcome Open Research},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.12688/wellcomeopenres.27508.1},
url = {https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.27508.1},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - The chromosomal genome sequence of the upside-down jellyfish, Cassiopea xamachana Bigelow, 1892 (Rhizostomeae: Cassiopeidae) and an associated microbial metagenome bin
AU - Mónica Medina
AU - Aki Ohdera
AU - Anthony Bellantuono
AU - Cheryl L. Ames
AU - Allen Collins
AU - William Fitt
AU - Laura Miller
AU - André Morandini
AU - Jose Victor Lopez
AU - Nina Pruzinsky
AU - Graeme Oatley
AU - Elizabeth Sinclair
AU - Eerik Aunin
AU - Noah Gettle
AU - Camilla Santos
AU - Michael Paulini
AU - Haoyu Niu
AU - Victoria McKenna
AU - Rebecca O’Brien
AU - Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team
AU - Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations
AU - Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team
AU - EBI Aquatic Symbiosis Genomics Data Portal Team
AU - Aquatic Symbiosis Genomics Project Leadership
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/15
JO - Wellcome Open Research
DO - 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.27508.1
UR - https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.27508.1
AB - We present a genome assembly from a specimen of Cassiopea xamachana (upside-down jellyfish; Cnidaria; Scyphozoa; Rhizostomeae; Cassiopeidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 326.12 megabases. Most of the assembly (98.3%) is scaffolded into 20 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled, with a length of 15.34 kilobases. From the metagenome data, we recovered one medium-quality bacterial bin assigned to Endozoicomonas sp.
SN - 2398-502X
ER -