Draft genome of the protandrous Chinese black porgy, Acanthopagrus schlegelii.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As one of the most popular and valuable commercial marine fishes in China and East Asian countries, the Chinese black porgy (Acanthopagrus schlegelii), also known as the blackhead seabream, has some attractive characteristics such as fast growth rate, good meat quality, resistance to diseases, and excellent adaptability to various environments. Furthermore, the black porgy is a good model for investigating sex changes in fish due to its protandrous hermaphroditism. Here, we obtained a high-quality genome assembly of this interesting teleost species and performed a genomic survey on potential genes associated with the sex-change phenomenon.

Findings

We generated 175.4 gigabases (Gb) of clean sequence reads using a whole-genome shotgun sequencing strategy. The final

SUBMITTER: Zhang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5893958 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature