Draft Macronuclear Genome Sequence of the Ruminal Ciliate Entodinium caudatum

T Park; S Wijeratne; T Meulia; J Firkins; Z Yu

doi:10.1128/MRA.00826-18

Draft Macronuclear Genome Sequence of the Ruminal Ciliate Entodinium caudatum

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2018 Jul 12;7(1):e00826-18. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00826-18. eCollection 2018 Jul.

Authors

T Park¹, S Wijeratne^{2

3}, T Meulia^{2

3}, J Firkins¹, Z Yu¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Animal Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
² Molecular and Cellular Imaging Center, Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, USA.
³ Department of Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio, USA.

Abstract

The transcriptionally active macronucleus of a ruminal ciliate, Entodinium caudatum MZG-1, was sequenced using the Illumina MiSeq and Oxford Nanopore MinION platforms. This is the first draft macronuclear genome sequence of a ruminal protozoon, and the genomic information will provide useful insight into the metabolism, physiology, and ecology of ruminal ciliates.