New crinoid genome

Echinobase is providing partial support for the feather star, Anneissia japonica, genome. 

The genome and descriptive gene names are displayed in JBrowse and the genome can be searched using BLAST.

The crinoids are sessile and include feather stars, which do not have a stalk, and sea lilies which are attached to the sea floor by a stalk.

Species of crinoids are used as an outgroup for phylogenetic studies within the Echinodermata.

Here is the Annotation page at NCBI.

Here is the assembly information and the Global Assembly Statistics are shown below.

Image of Anneissia japonica (previously called Oxycomanthus japonicus) courtesy of Josuevg and Wikimedia commons. Distributed under the Creative Commons license.