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Draft genome sequence of the Daphnia pathogen Octosporea bayeri: insights into the gene content of a large microsporidian genome and a model for host-parasite interactions

Nicolas Corradi1, Karen L Haag3,2, Jean-François Pombert1, Dieter Ebert2 and Patrick J Keeling1*

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1 Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, The Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia, University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada

2 Universität Basel, Zoologisches Institut, Evolutionsbiologie, Vesalgasse, CH-4051 Basel, Switzerland

3 Department of Genetics, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, RS 91501-970, Brazil

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Genome Biology 2009, 10:R106 doi:10.1186/gb-2009-10-10-r106

Published: 6 October 2009

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Additional data file 1:

Enc. cuniculi predicted genes and the putative counterparts identified in O. bayeri.

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Additional data file 2:

The 80 O. bayeri proteins with assigned functions and motifs that are absent in Enc. cuniculi.

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Additional data file 3:

O. bayeri ORFs and their assignment to functional categories (according to [25]).

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Additional data file 4:

Sequences of the six introns identified in O. bayeri.

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Three examples of large gene inserts we identified in otherwise conserved eukaryotic proteins.

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Additional data file 6:

The number of contigs used in this study and their respective sequence coverage.

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Additional data file 7:

Repetitive elements we identified in the O. bayeri genome.

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