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The <em>Daphnia</em> Genomics Consortium (DGC) is an international <a href="/people/?page=network"><font color="#0066cc">network</font></a> of investigators committed to mounting the freshwater crustacean <em>Daphnia</em> as a <a href="/people/modelsystem/"><font color="#0066cc">model system for ecology, evolution and the environmental sciences</font></a>. At our first consortium meeting in 2002, a decision was made to initially focus most of the global efforts on the <em>D. pulex</em> complex, based on the broad set of genomic tools that have already been developed, but to also bring the distantly related congener <em>D. magna</em> on board as soon as possible. Five years later, we are in the process of analyzing the draft genome sequence assembly of the <em>D. pulex</em> genome and we are beginning the <em>D. magna</em> genome sequencing project.