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Open Res Eur 2025 Sep 25;5:297. doi: 10.12688/openreseurope.20841.1.
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ERGA-BGE reference genome of Holothuria (Platyperona) sanctori: a sea cucumber from the Mediterranean Sea.

Vasileiadou K , Dailianis T , Skouradakis G , Vernadou E , Karakasi D , Böhne A , Monteiro R , Fernández R , Escudero N , Manousaki T , Genoscope Sequencing Team , Moussy A , Cruaud C , Labadie K , Demirdjian L , Ndar A , Wincker P , H Oliveira P , Aury JM , Bortoluzzi C .


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Holothuria sanctori is a common species of sea cucumber found in the Mediterranean Sea and the Northeast Atlantic Ocean. It typically inhabits shallow rocky and sandy seabeds, where it plays a key ecological role as a sediment engineer processing organic matter ts and thereby contributing to nutrient cycling. As an edible species, H. sanctori is harvested in several countries. Although it is currently listed as a species of "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List, the absence of a regulatory framework to prevent overexploitation poses a risk of population decline. Given its ecological significance and economic value , H. sanctori has become a focal point in both marine conservation and aquaculture research. The entirety of the genome sequence was assembled into 23 contiguous chromosomal pseudomolecules. This chromosome-level assembly encompasses 1.2 Gb, composed of 135 contigs and 46 scaffolds, with contig and scaffold N50 values of 19.9 Mb and 50.7 Mb, respectively.

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