Table 1.

Sponge genomes and their respective repositories.

Species	Genome repository
A. queenslandica (1) (Srivastava et al. 2010)	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/GCF_000090795.2
A. queenslandica (2)	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/data-hub/genome/GCA_016292275.1/
E. muelleri (Kenny et al. 2020)	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/GCA_013339895.1
H. panicea (Strehlow et al. 2022)	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/GCA_020423275.1
O. minuta (Santini et al. 2023)	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/GCA_024704765.1
P. ficiformis	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/GCA_947044365.1
C. reniformis	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/assembly/GCA_947172415.1
S. carteri (Ryu et al. 2016)	http://sc.reefgenomics.org/download/
X. testudinaria (Ryu et al. 2016)	http://xt.reefgenomics.org/download/
T. wilhelma (Francis et al. 2017)	https://bitbucket.org/molpalmuc/tethya_wilhelma-genome/src/master/
L. baikalensis (SPAdes_500 min.fa) (Kenny et al. 2019)	https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Transcriptomic_and_genomic_assemblies_Lake_Baikal_Sponge_Data/6819812
O. pearsei (Nichols et al. 2012)	https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Oscarella_pearsei_assemblies/7107638
S. ciliatum (Fortunato et al. 2012)	https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.tn0f3