The draft genome of Kipferlia bialata reveals reductive genome evolution in fornicate parasites

• Goro Tanifuji ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Goro Tanifuji, Shun Takabayashi

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

  * E-mail: gorot@kahaku.go.jp (GT); hashimoto.tetsuo.gm@u.tsukuba.ac.jp (TH)

  Affiliations Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Department of Zoology, National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Shun Takabayashi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Goro Tanifuji, Shun Takabayashi

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Keitaro Kume,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Mizue Takagi,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Takuro Nakayama,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan

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• Ryoma Kamikawa,

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

  Affiliations Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

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• Yuji Inagaki,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Tetsuo Hashimoto

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gorot@kahaku.go.jp (GT); hashimoto.tetsuo.gm@u.tsukuba.ac.jp (TH)

  Affiliations Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3975-2221

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