Biology & Life Sciences

GIGA: Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance research

Published September 21, 2018 Partnered Collections, Special Issues

GIGA is an international non-profit community of scientists dedicated to promoting genomics research of diverse non-model invertebrate species. Invertebrates comprise over 95% of all animal species and are grouped into ~35 distinct phyla, yet only limited genomic and transcriptomic data are currently available and primarily focus on a few model species. GIGA advocates an increased availability of non-insect/non-nematode invertebrate genomes and transcriptomes, with an emphasis on marine taxa because of the unrivaled phyletic diversity in the oceans. Target species will be based on phylogenetic placement, relevance to organismal, ecological, and conservation research, and their importance to fisheries and human health. This Collection welcomes papers that reflect GIGA’s primary goals – see also our inaugural white paper.

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PLOS Biologue The GIGA Collection: Invertebrates Galore!
September 21, 2018 Gert Wörheide

Invertebrate genomics research

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Yoshida et al. / pbio.2002266

PLOS Biology Comparative genomics of the tardigrades Hypsibius dujardini and Ramazzottius varieornatus
July 27, 2017 Yuki Yoshida, Georgios Koutsovoulos, Dominik R. Laetsch, Lewis Stevens, Sujai Kumar, Daiki D. Horikawa, Kyoko Ishino, Shiori Komine, Takekazu Kunieda, Masaru Tomita, Mark Blaxter, Kazuharu Arakawa
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Chipman et al. pbio.1002005

PLOS Biology The First Myriapod Genome Sequence Reveals Conservative Arthropod Gene Content and Genome Organisation in the Centipede Strigamia maritima
November 25, 2014 Ariel D. Chipman, David E. K. Ferrier, Carlo Brena, Jiaxin Qu, Daniel S. T. Hughes, Reinhard Schröder, Montserrat Torres-Oliva, Nadia Znassi, Huaiyang Jiang, Francisca C. Almeida, Claudio R. Alonso, Zivkos Apostolou, Peshtewani Aqrawi, Wallace Arthur, Jennifer C. J. Barna, Kerstin P. Blankenburg, Daniela Brites, Salvador Capella-Gutiérrez, Marcus Coyle, Peter K. Dearden, Louis Du Pasquier, Elizabeth J. Duncan, Dieter Ebert, Cornelius Eibner, Galina Erikson, Peter D. Evans, Cassandra G. Extavour, Liezl Francisco, Toni Gabaldón, William J. Gillis, Elizabeth A. Goodwin-Horn, Jack E. Green, Sam Griffiths-Jones, Cornelis J. P. Grimmelikhuijzen, Sai Gubbala, Roderic Guigó, Yi Han, Frank Hauser, Paul Havlak, Luke Hayden, Sophie Helbing, Michael Holder, Jerome H. L. Hui, Julia P. Hunn, Vera S. Hunnekuhl, LaRonda Jackson, Mehwish Javaid, Shalini N. Jhangiani, Francis M. Jiggins, Tamsin E. Jones, Tobias S. Kaiser, Divya Kalra, Nathan J. Kenny, Viktoriya Korchina, Christie L. Kovar, F. Bernhard Kraus, François Lapraz, Sandra L. Lee, Jie Lv, Christigale Mandapat, Gerard Manning, Marco Mariotti, Robert Mata, Tittu Mathew, Tobias Neumann, Irene Newsham, Dinh N. Ngo, Maria Ninova, Geoffrey Okwuonu, Fiona Ongeri, William J. Palmer, Shobha Patil, Pedro Patraquim, Christopher Pham, Ling-Ling Pu, Nicholas H. Putman, Catherine Rabouille, Olivia Mendivil Ramos, Adelaide C. Rhodes, Helen E. Robertson, Hugh M. Robertson, Matthew Ronshaugen, Julio Rozas, Nehad Saada, Alejandro Sánchez-Gracia, Steven E. Scherer, Andrew M. Schurko, Kenneth W. Siggens, DeNard Simmons, Anna Stief, Eckart Stolle, Maximilian J. Telford, Kristin Tessmar-Raible, Rebecca Thornton, Maurijn van der Zee, Arndt von Haeseler, James M. Williams, Judith H. Willis, Yuanqing Wu, Xiaoyan Zou, Daniel Lawson, Donna M. Muzny, Kim C. Worley, Richard A. Gibbs, Michael Akam, Stephen Richards
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10.1371/journal.pbio.2005359

PLOS Biology Comparative genomics and the nature of placozoan species
July 31, 2018 Michael Eitel, Warren R. Francis, Frédérique Varoqueaux, Jean Daraspe, Hans-Jürgen Osigus, Stefan Krebs, Sergio Vargas, Helmut Blum, Gray A. Williams, Bernd Schierwater, Gert Wörheide
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Murgarella M, Puiu D, Novoa B, Figueras A, Posada D, Canchaya C (2016) A First Insight into the Genome of the Filter-Feeder Mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis. PLoS ONE 11(3): e0151561.

PLOS ONE A First Insight into the Genome of the Filter-Feeder Mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis
March 15, 2016 Maria Murgarella, Daniela Puiu, Beatriz Novoa, Antonio Figueras, David Posada, Carlos Canchaya
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10.1371/journal.pone.0151092

PLOS ONE Detection of Prokaryotic Genes in the Amphimedon queenslandica Genome
March 9, 2016 Cecilia Conaco, Pantelis Tsoulfas, Onur Sakarya, Amanda Dolan, John Werren, Kenneth S. Kosik
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Kaur S, Jobling S, Jones CS, Noble LR, Routledge EJ, Lockyer AE (2015) The Nuclear Receptors of Biomphalaria glabrata and Lottia gigantea: Implications for Developing New Model Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0121259.

PLOS ONE The Nuclear Receptors of Biomphalaria glabrata and Lottia gigantea: Implications for Developing New Model Organisms
April 7, 2015 Satwant Kaur, Susan Jobling, Catherine S. Jones, Leslie R. Noble, Edwin J. Routledge, Anne E. Lockyer
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Sun Y, Hou R, Fu X, Sun C, Wang S, Wang C, et al. (2014) Genome-Wide Analysis of DNA Methylation in Five Tissues of Zhikong Scallop, Chlamys farreri. PLoS ONE 9(1): e86232.

PLOS ONE Genome-Wide Analysis of DNA Methylation in Five Tissues of Zhikong Scallop, Chlamys farreri
January 14, 2014 Yan Sun, Rui Hou, Xiaoteng Fu, Changsen Sun, Shi Wang, Chen Wang, Ning Li, Zhenmin Bao, Lingling Zhang
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10.1371/journal.pbio.2004830

PLOS Biology Comparative genomics of bdelloid rotifers: Insights from desiccating and nondesiccating species
April 24, 2018 Reuben W. Nowell, Pedro Almeida, Christopher G. Wilson, Thomas P. Smith, Diego Fontaneto, Alastair Crisp, Gos Micklem, Alan Tunnacliffe, Chiara Boschetti, Timothy G. Barraclough