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English: Comparing actual marine animal biodiversity to sequenced marine animal genomes. (A) Presents the proportionate taxonomic biodiversity of all accepted marine species [1]. (B) Presents the breakdown of marine animal genome assemblies deposited to the National Center for Biotechnology Information as of September 2019. Eleven of the phyla in (A) (including one major and ten minor) have yet had a single genome sequenced and assembled. These include Bryozoa, Sipuncula, Nematomorpha, Gnathostomulida, Gastrotricha, Entoprocta, Dicyemida, Cycliophora, Chaetognatha, Aschelminthes. Several of these missing phyla are entirely marine, meaning they are wholly unrepresented in genomics. Outer circles of (A,B) delineate nonchordate invertebrates (dark gray) from the phyla chordata (light gray), which has been further subdivided, revealing a gross over-representation of sequenced genomes for vertebrate classes compared to entire invertebrate phyla.

[1] Source: WoRMS Editorial Board. World Register of Marine Species. Available online: http://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ. Accessed: 18 October 2019.