The round goby genome provides insights into mechanisms that may facilitate biological invasions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The invasive benthic round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) is the most successful temperate invasive fish and has spread in aquatic ecosystems on both sides of the Atlantic. Invasive species constitute powerful in situ experimental systems to study fast adaptation and directional selection on short ecological timescales and present promising case studies to understand factors involved the impressive ability of some species to colonize novel environments. We seize the unique opportunity presented by the round goby invasion to study genomic substrates potentially involved in colonization success.

Results

We report a highly contiguous long-read-based genome and analyze gene families that we hypothesize to relate to the ability of these fish to deal with novel environme

SUBMITTER: Adrian-Kalchhauser I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6988351 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature