Symbiodinium microadriaticum strain:CCMP2467 Genome sequencing and assembly

Dinoflagellates are ubiquitous marine and freshwater protists. As free-living photosynthetic plankton, they account for ~50% of the primary productivity of oceans and lakes. As photosynthetic symbionts, they provide essential nutrients to corals that are the architects of one of the most productive ecosystems: coral reefs. Here, we report the sequencing of the genome of the dinoflagellate Symbiodinium sp. (CCMP 2467), isolated in the Red Sea from the scleractinian coral Stylophora pistillata. Using a variety of paired-end and mate-paired Illumina genomic sequencing libraries we have sequenced and then assembled a draft genome of the dinoflagellate.