Fish genomics and biology

Table 1.

Summary of current genomic resources on fish species




Genome projects

Genome size (Mb)

Assembled genome sequence coverage

Shotgun reads

ESTs or cDNAs
Zebrafish http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Projects/D_rerio/ 1700 6.5–7 24,535,919 673078
Tetraodon http/www.genoscope.cns.fr/tetraodon 350 8.3 2,975,798 99204a
Fugu http://genome.jgi-psf.org/Takru4/Takru4.home.html 380 8.7 3,638,510 25860
Medaka http://dolphin.lab.nig.ac.jp/medaka/ 800 9.0 15,171,833
Salmon http://www.salmongenome.no 3100 22,677 114911
Stickleback http://www.genome.gov/12512292 675 6,959,213 171001
Trout
N.A.
2700

47,051
231820
  • N.A.: Not available.

  • a Tetraodon cDNA sequences are full-length insert sequences; sequences from other species are ESTs

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