@article {47726, title = {The genome of the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis: a model for animal development, regeneration, immunity and lignocellulose digestion.}, journal = {eLife}, volume = {5}, year = {2016}, month = {2016 Nov 16}, pages = {e20062}, abstract = {

Parhyale hawaiensis is a blossoming model system for studies of developmental mechanisms and more recently adult regeneration. We have sequenced the genome allowing annotation of all key signaling pathways, small non-coding RNAs and transcription factors that will enhance ongoing functional studies. Parhayle is a member of the Malacostraca, which includes crustacean food crop species. We analysed the immunity related genes of Parhyale as an important comparative system for these species, where immunity related aquaculture problems have increased as farming has intensified. We also find that Parhyale and other species within Multicrustacea contain the enzyme sets necessary to perform lignocellulose digestion (wood eating), suggesting this ability may predate the diversification of this lineage. Our data provide an essential resource for further development of the Parhyale model. The first Malacostracan genome sequence will underpin ongoing comparative work in important food crop species and research investigating lignocellulose as energy source.

Publication first appeared in BioRxiv on August 2, 2016.\ http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/065789

}, doi = {10.7554/eLife.20062}, author = {Kao, Damian and Lai, Alvina G and Stamataki, Evangelia and Rosic, Silvana and Konstantinides, Nikolaos and Jarvis, Erin and Di Donfrancesco, Alessia and Pouchkina-Stantcheva, Natalia and Semon, Marie and Grillo, Marco and Bruce, Heather and Kumar, Suyash and Siwanowicz, Igor and Le, Andy and Lemire, Andrew and Extavour, Cassandra and Browne, William and Wolff, Carsten and Averof, Michalis and et al} }