I have some mixed genome sequence data of an insect. The insect contains 1 known and probable some unknown symbionts. Could someone please suggest me how can I identify the unknown symbionts if they exist in insect?
Did you do the sequencing? If so you can map the reads against the genome and search for islands or contigs with very different coverage
You can also redo the genome assembly trying to delimitate the reads to be used in each assembly based on the kmer frequency. You can do that with the velvet stats output file in R generating a graph: