Draft Genome Sequences of Thelohania contejeani and Cucumispora dikerogammari, Pathogenic Microsporidia of Freshwater Crustaceans

Alexandre Cormier; Rémi Wattier; Isabelle Giraud; Maria Teixeira; Frédéric Grandjean; Thierry Rigaud; Richard Cordaux

doi:10.1128/MRA.01346-20

Draft Genome Sequences of Thelohania contejeani and Cucumispora dikerogammari, Pathogenic Microsporidia of Freshwater Crustaceans

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2021 Jan 14;10(2):e01346-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.01346-20.

Authors

Alexandre Cormier¹, Rémi Wattier², Isabelle Giraud¹, Maria Teixeira², Frédéric Grandjean¹, Thierry Rigaud², Richard Cordaux³

Affiliations

¹ Laboratoire Ecologie et Biologie des Interactions, Université de Poitiers, UMR CNRS 7267, Poitiers, France.
² Laboratoire Biogéosciences, Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté, UMR CNRS 6282, Dijon, France.
³ Laboratoire Ecologie et Biologie des Interactions, Université de Poitiers, UMR CNRS 7267, Poitiers, France richard.cordaux@univ-poitiers.fr.

Abstract

We announce the draft genome sequences of two pathogenic microsporidia of European freshwater crustaceans, Thelohania contejeani (the causative agent of porcelain disease) and Cucumispora dikerogammari Both species are implicated in mass mortalities in natural populations of their crayfish and amphipod hosts, respectively.