Terra incognita – sequencing projects of monogeneans parasites

Parasitic monogeneans are important blood sucking fish ectoparasites. Their presence can lead to significant losses in fish stocks. Our understanding to the biological processes of monogeneans is based also on detailed knowledge of their molecular biology and biochemistry. By using the modern sequencing methods and computer databases (genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic) we can now faster and more accurately identify numerous sets of protein molecules which are essential for life of these parasites. From a large group of Monogenea (assume the existence up to 25 000 species). Only one species has was deeply sequenced – genome of Gyrodactylus salaris (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae) from 2014. We would like to change this situation and therefore we adopted Eudiplozoon nipponicum (Monogenea: Diplozoidae) as a model organism and started some preliminary analyses leaded to generation of E. nipponicum genome, transcriptome and proteome databases.