Chromosomal-level assembly of yellow catfish genome using third-generation DNA sequencing and Hi-C analysis

• Published in: Gigascience Vol. 7; no. 11
• Main Authors: Gong, Gaorui, Dan, Cheng, Xiao, Shijun, Guo, Wenjie, Huang, Peipei, Xiong, Yang, Wu, Junjie, He, Yan, Zhang, Jicheng, Li, Xiaohui, Chen, Nansheng, Gui, Jian-Fang, Mei, Jie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Oxford University Press 01.11.2018
• Subjects: Animals; Aquaculture; Assembly; Biosynthesis; Catfish; Catfishes - classification; Catfishes - genetics; Chromosomes; Computational Biology - methods; Data Note; Degeneration; Dimorphism; Disease resistance; DNA sequencing; Economic importance; Fatty acids; Female; Gene families; Gene Library; Gene sequencing; Genome; Genomes; Genomics; Genomics - methods; Germplasm; Immune system; Male; Molecular Sequence Annotation; Multigene Family; Phylogeny; Scaffolds; Sex determination; Sexual dimorphism; Signal transduction

The yellow catfish, Pelteobagrus fulvidraco, belonging to the Siluriformes order, is an economically important freshwater aquaculture fish species in Asia, especially in Southern China. The aquaculture industry has recently been facing tremendous challenges in germplasm degeneration and poor disease...