Sequencing of the the Parhyale aquilina genome
In order to compare sequence conservation between Parhyale species, the genome of a Parhyale aquilina individual was sequenced using short read sequencing. The goal was not to assemble the genome sequence but only to align the reads to assembled Parhyale genomes, in order to identify islands of conserved sequences, which could be considered as putative cis-regulatory elements.