RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 An annotated draft genome for Radix auricularia (Gastropoda, Mollusca) JF bioRxiv FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory SP 087254 DO 10.1101/087254 A1 Tilman Schell A1 Barbara Feldmeyer A1 Hanno Schmidt A1 Bastian Greshake A1 Oliver Tills A1 Manuela Truebano A1 Simon D. Rundle A1 Juraj Paule A1 Ingo Ebersberger A1 Markus Pfenninger YR 2017 UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/02/01/087254.abstract AB Molluscs are the second most species-rich phylum in the animal kingdom, yet only eleven genomes of this group have been published so far. Here, we present the draft genome sequence of the pulmonate freshwater snail Radix auricularia. Six whole genome shotgun libraries with different layouts were sequenced. The resulting assembly comprises 4,823 scaffolds with a cumulative length of 910 Mb and an overall read coverage of 72x. The assembly contains 94.6 % of a metazoan core gene collection, indicating an almost complete coverage of the coding fraction. The discrepancy of ~690 Mb compared to the estimated genome size of R. auricularia (1.6 Gb) results from a high repeat content of 70 % mainly comprising DNA transposons. The annotation of 17,338 protein coding genes was supported by the use of publicly-available transcriptome data. This draft will serve as starting point for further genomic and population genetic research in this scientifically important phylum.