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    Draft genome of an iconic Red Sea reef fish, the blacktail butterflyfish (Chaetodon austriacus): Current status and its characteristics

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    Authors
    Di Battista, Joseph
    Wang, X.
    Saenz-Agudelo, P.
    Piatek, M.
    Aranda, M.
    Berumen, M.
    Date
    2018
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Di Battista, J. and Wang, X. and Saenz-Agudelo, P. and Piatek, M. and Aranda, M. and Berumen, M. 2018. Draft genome of an iconic Red Sea reef fish, the blacktail butterflyfish (Chaetodon austriacus): Current status and its characteristics. Molecular Ecology Resources. 18 (2): pp. 347-355.
    Source Title
    Molecular Ecology Resources
    DOI
    10.1111/1755-0998.12588
    ISSN
    1755-098X
    School
    Department of Environment and Agriculture
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/48908
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Butterflyfish are among the most iconic of the coral reef fishes and represent a model system to study general questions of biogeography, evolution and population genetics. We assembled and annotated the genome sequence of the blacktail butterflyfish (Chaetodon austriacus), an Arabian region endemic species that is reliant on coral reefs for food and shelter. Using available bony fish (superclass Osteichthyes) genomes as a reference, a total of 28 926 high-quality protein-coding genes were predicted from 13 967 assembled scaffolds. The quality and completeness of the draft genome of C. austriacus suggest that it has the potential to serve as a resource for studies on the co-evolution of reef fish adaptations to the unique Red Sea environment, as well as a comparison of gene sequences between closely related congeneric species of butterflyfish distributed more broadly across the tropical Indo-Pacific.

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