The first transcriptomic resource for the flatworm Triaenophorus nodulosus (Cestoda: Bothriocephalidea), a common parasite of holarctic freshwater fish

摘要

The order Bothriocephalidea includes worldwide-distributed helminths of marine and freshwater teleost fish. Despite its obvious evolutionary, ecologic and economic importance, there are no transcriptomic, genomic, or proteomic resources available for these organisms. In this data article, we sequenced the transcriptome of a tapeworm, Triaenophorus nodulosus (Pallas, 1781), a common parasite of holarctic freshwater fish. Extracts of total RNA from two different developmental stages (plerocercoid and adult worms) were pooled to create a de novo assembly of the transcriptome, which has been deposited in the NCBI (BioProject PRJNA526283). We also provided functional annotation of the transcripts and predicted the proteome of T. nodulosus. These data will be valuable for studies of molecular evolution and phylogeny of tapeworms, as well as specific adaptations to parasitism in aquatic organisms.