VSC User Day 2018 Poster
Reference Assisted Assembly and Annotation of the Octopus vulgaris Genome
Koen Herten, Gregory Maes, Eve Seuntjes, Fiorito Graziano and Joris R Vermeesch
Compared to any other species, the Octopus vulgaris or common octopus appears to be utterly different, with its eight prehensile arms and its complex nervous system, enabling clever problem-solving and observational learning abilities and amazing physical behaviours such as millisecond colour and shape change (camouflage). Strikingly, the genome encoding these alien features turned out to be equally alien…
