Editing Box jellyfish (section)

==Genetics==
Box jellyfish have a mitochondrial genome that is arranged into eight linear chromosomes.<ref name=":5">{{Citation |last1=Kayal |first1=Ehsan |title=Insights into the transcriptional and translational mechanisms of linear organellar chromosomes in the box jellyfish Alatina alata (Cnidaria: Medusozoa: Cubozoa) |date=June 6, 2016 |work=RNA Biology, U.S. National Library of Medicine |doi=10.1080/15476286.2016.1194161 |pmid=27267414 |last2=Bentalge |first2=Bastian |last3=Collins |first3=Allen G|volume=13 |issue=9 |pages=799–809 |pmc=5013998 }}</ref> As of 2022, only two Cubozoan species were fully sequenced, ''[[Alatina alata]]'' and ''[[Morbakka virulenta]]''. ''A. alata'' has 66,156 genes, the largest gene count for any [[Medusozoa]]n.<ref name="Santander2022">{{cite journal |doi=10.1093/gigascience/giac036 |title=The state of Medusozoa genomics: Current evidence and future challenges |date=2022 |last1=Santander |first1=Mylena D. |last2=Maronna |first2=Maximiliano M. |last3=Ryan |first3=Joseph F. |last4=Andrade |first4=Sónia C S. |journal=GigaScience |volume=11 |pmid=35579552 |pmc=9112765 }}</ref> The mitochondrial genome of box jellyfish is uniquely structured into multiple linear fragments.<ref name="Avian2021"/> Each one of the eight linear chromosomes have between one and four genes including two extra genes. These two extra genes (mt-polB and orf314) encode proteins.<ref name=":5"/> There are only a few studies that have been completed involving the research of mitochondrial gene expression in box jellyfish.<ref name=":5"/>