The genome of the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis: a model for animal development, regeneration, immunity and lignocellulose digestion

Damian Kao; Alvina G. Lai; Evangelia Stamataki; Silvana Rosic; Nikolaos Konstantinides; Erin Jarvis; Alessia Di Donfrancesco; Natalia Pouchkina-Stantcheva; Marie Sémon; Marco Grillo; Heather Bruce; Suyash Kumar; Igor Siwanowicz; Andy Le; Andrew Lemire; Michael B. Eisen; Cassandra Extavour; William E. Browne; Carsten Wolff; Michalis Averof; Nipam H. Patel; Peter Sarkies; Anastasios Pavlopoulos; A. Aziz Aboobaker

[178] was used with the RFAM 12.0 database [130] to scan the genome to identify potential non-coding 884 RNAs. Additionally, MiRPara [129] was used to scan the genome for potential miRNA precursors. These 885 potential precursors were further filtered using small RNA read mapping and miRBase mapping [179] . Parhyale is a direct developer and a sexually dimorphic species. The fertilized egg undergoes stereotyped total cleavages and each blastomere becomes committed to a particular germ layer already at the 8-cell stage depicted in (D). The three macromeres Er, El, and Ep give rise to the anterior right, anterior left, and posterior ectoderm, respectively, while the fourth macromere Mav gives rise to the visceral mesoderm and anterior head somatic mesoderm. Among the 4 micromeres, the mr and ml micromeres give rise to the right and left somatic trunk mesoderm, en gives rise to the endoderm, and g gives rise to the germline.