The sea cucumber genome provides insights into morphological evolution and visceral regeneration

Xiaojun Zhang; Lina Sun; Jianbo Yuan; Yamin Sun; Yi Gao; Libin Zhang; Shihao Li; Hui Dai; Jean-François Hamel; Chengzhang Liu; Yang Yu; Shilin Liu; Wenchao Lin; Kaimin Guo; Songjun Jin; Peng Xu; Kenneth B. Storey; Pin Huan; Tao Zhang; Yi Zhou; Jiquan Zhang; Chenggang Lin; Xiaoni Li; Lili Xing; Da Huo; Mingzhe Sun; Lei Wang; Annie Mercier; Fuhua Li; Hongsheng Yang; Jianhai Xiang

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The sea cucumber genome provides insights into morphological evolution and visceral regeneration

Xiaojun Zhang ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaojun Zhang, Lina Sun, Jianbo Yuan, Yamin Sun, Yi Gao, Libin Zhang, Shihao Li

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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Lina Sun ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaojun Zhang, Lina Sun, Jianbo Yuan, Yamin Sun, Yi Gao, Libin Zhang, Shihao Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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Jianbo Yuan ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaojun Zhang, Lina Sun, Jianbo Yuan, Yamin Sun, Yi Gao, Libin Zhang, Shihao Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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Yamin Sun ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaojun Zhang, Lina Sun, Jianbo Yuan, Yamin Sun, Yi Gao, Libin Zhang, Shihao Li

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Tianjin Biochip Corporation, Tianjin, China
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Yi Gao ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaojun Zhang, Lina Sun, Jianbo Yuan, Yamin Sun, Yi Gao, Libin Zhang, Shihao Li

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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Libin Zhang ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaojun Zhang, Lina Sun, Jianbo Yuan, Yamin Sun, Yi Gao, Libin Zhang, Shihao Li

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Visualization

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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Shihao Li ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Xiaojun Zhang, Lina Sun, Jianbo Yuan, Yamin Sun, Yi Gao, Libin Zhang, Shihao Li

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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Hui Dai,

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Tianjin Biochip Corporation, Tianjin, China
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Jean-François Hamel,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Society for the Exploration and Valuing of the Environment (SEVE), Portugal Cove-St. Philips, Newfoundland, Canada
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Chengzhang Liu,

Roles Data curation, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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Yang Yu,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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Shilin Liu,

Roles Resources

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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Wenchao Lin,

Roles Data curation, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Tianjin Biochip Corporation, Tianjin, China
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Kaimin Guo,

Roles Data curation, Software

Affiliation Tianjin Biochip Corporation, Tianjin, China
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Songjun Jin,

Roles Funding acquisition, Validation

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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Peng Xu,

Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
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Kenneth B. Storey,

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biology, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Pin Huan,

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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Tao Zhang,

Roles Resources

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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Yi Zhou,

Roles Resources

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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Jiquan Zhang,

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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Chenggang Lin,

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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Xiaoni Li,

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Lili Xing,

Roles Investigation, Validation

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Da Huo,

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Mingzhe Sun,

Roles Investigation

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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Lei Wang,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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Annie Mercier ,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: amercier@mun.ca (AM); fhli@qdio.ac.cn (FL); hshyang@qdio.ac.cn (HY); jhxiang@qdio.ac.cn (JX)

Affiliation Department of Ocean Sciences, Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
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Fuhua Li ,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: amercier@mun.ca (AM); fhli@qdio.ac.cn (FL); hshyang@qdio.ac.cn (HY); jhxiang@qdio.ac.cn (JX)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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Hongsheng Yang ,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: amercier@mun.ca (AM); fhli@qdio.ac.cn (FL); hshyang@qdio.ac.cn (HY); jhxiang@qdio.ac.cn (JX)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China
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Jianhai Xiang

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: amercier@mun.ca (AM); fhli@qdio.ac.cn (FL); hshyang@qdio.ac.cn (HY); jhxiang@qdio.ac.cn (JX)

Affiliations Key Laboratory of Experimental Marine Biology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, China, Laboratory for Marine Biology and Biotechnology & Marine Ecology and Environmental Science, Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, Qingdao, China

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The sea cucumber genome provides insights into morphological evolution and visceral regeneration

Xiaojun Zhang,
Lina Sun,
Jianbo Yuan,
Yamin Sun,
Yi Gao,
Libin Zhang,
Shihao Li,
Hui Dai,
Jean-François Hamel,
Chengzhang Liu

Published: October 12, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2003790

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