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Genomic analysis reveals a 328.68-megabase chromosome-level assembly and microbial metagenome in staghorn coral, facilitating conservation and molecular research.
We present a genome assembly from a specimen of Acropora cervicornis (staghorn coral; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Scleractinia; Acroporidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 328.68 megabases. Most of the assembly (99.07%) is scaffolded into 14 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled, with a length of 18.26 kilobases. Gene annotation of this assembly by Ensembl identified 24,579 protein-coding genes. From the metagenome data, we recovered two bins, of which one was a high-quality MAG.
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