Partial mitochondrial gene sequences generated in the study "Genome skimming of Poecilosclerida (Porifera) reveals conserved and hyperrearranged mitochondrial genomes"

Genome skimming is a cost-effective approach that efficiently recovers multi-copy genomic regions, making it particularly valuable for phylogenetic research and biodiversity assessments. In this study, we applied shallow shotgun metagenome sequencing to 15 poecilosclerid sponges, successfully assembling complete mitochondrial genomes for four species and full rDNA clusters for the majority of samples, despite considerable variation in the retrieval of genomic regions and exogenous, non-poriferan sequences. All samples we failed to build complete mitochondrial genomes returned varying levels of partial sequences for mtDNA genes, which were included in phylogenetic reconstructions accordingly, and are available for download here (https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30742643).