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wFleaBase
Daphnia Genome project

Genome of Daphnia pulex and other species, including bulk data files, and all gene pages

Genomics Tools including microsatellites, cDNA, Cosmid and BAC libraries, GSS and ESTs, microarrays

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Maps of Daphnia genome, and genome annotation tools

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Daphnia

wFleaBase
Daphnia Water Flea
Genome Database

July 2007: First public release of Daphnia pulex Genome is here
and see these genome summaries.


This web service provides gene and genomic information for species of the genus Daphnia - commonly known as the water flea.

The freshwater crustacean Daphnia is a model system for ecology, evolution and the environmental sciences. The rapidly growing genomic data for this organism is stimulating interdisciplinary research to understand the complex interplay between genome structure, gene expression, individual fitness, and population-level responses to chemical contaminants and environmental change.

wFleaBase includes data from all species of the genus, yet the primary species are D. pulex and D. magna, because of the broad set of genomic tools that have already been developed for these animals.

A complete sequence for Daphnia pulex is now available at this site. Please observe this Data release policy. The data is a first characterization of the crustacean genome, which was made possible by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) in collaboration with the Daphnia Genomics Consortium (DGC) whose members were funded by the National Science Foundation.

Developed at the Genome Informatics Lab
of Indiana University Biology Department

We gratefully acknowledge support from National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health,
The IU Genome Informatics Lab, and Center for Genomics and Bioinformatics at Indiana University. See also the Warranty, Disclaimer & Copyright Notice.