Genome sequencing of the social amoeba Dictyostelium giganteum
Raw Illumina paired-end sequencing reads from six natural isolates of the social amoeba Dictyostelium giganteum collected from the Mudumalai Nature Reserve, India. These datasets were generated to construct a species-level consensus genome assembly and to investigate genome architecture, gene content, and evolutionary relationships within Dictyostelia. The sequencing data support genome assembly, annotation, and comparative genomic analyses with related species including Dictyostelium discoideum and Dictyostelium firmibasis.