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Background  The phyla Cnidaria, Placozoa, Ctenophora, and Porifera emerged before the split of proto- and deuterostome animals, about 600 million years ago. These early metazoans are interesting, because they can give us important information on the evolution of various tissues and organs, such as eyes and the nervous system. Generally, cnidarians have simple nervous systems, which use neuropeptides for their neurotransmission, but some cnidarian medusae belonging to the class Cubozoa (box jellyfishes) have advanced image-forming eyes, probably associated with a complex innervation. Here, we describe a new transcriptome database from the cubomedusa  Tripedalia cystophora.Results  Based on the combined use of the Illumina and PacBio sequencing technologies, we produced a highly contiguous transcriptome database from  T. cystophora.  We then developed a software program to discover neuropeptide preprohormones in this database. This script enabled us to annotate seven novel  T. cystophora  neuropeptide preprohormone cDNAs: One coding for 19 copies of a peptide with the structure pQWLRGRFamide; one coding for six copies of a different RFamide peptide; one coding for six copies of pQPPGVWamide; one coding for eight different neuropeptide copies with the C-terminal LWamide sequence; one coding for thirteen copies of a peptide with the RPRAamide C-terminus; one coding for four copies of a peptide with the C-terminal GRYamide sequence; and one coding for seven copies of a cyclic peptide, of which the most frequent one has the sequence CTGQMCWFRamide. We could also identify orthologs of these seven preprohormones in the cubozoans  Alatina alata, Carybdea xaymacana, Chironex fleckeri,  and  Chiropsalmus quadrumanus.  Furthermore, using TBLASTN screening, we could annotate four bursicon-like glycoprotein hormone subunits, five opsins, and 52 other family-A G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), which also included two leucine-rich repeats containing G protein-coupled receptors (LGRs) in  T. cystophora . The two LGRs are potential receptors for the glycoprotein hormones, while the other GPCRs are candidate receptors for the above-mentioned neuropeptides.    Conclusions  By combining Illumina and PacBio sequencing technologies, we have produced a new high-quality de novo transcriptome assembly from  T. cystophora  that should be a valuable resource for identifying the neuronal components that are involved in vision and other behaviors in cubomedusae.    Electronic supplementary material  The online version of this article (10.1186/s12864-019-5514-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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De novo transcriptome assembly of the cubomedusa Tripedalia cystophora, including the analysis of a set of genes involved in peptidergic neurotransmission