Draft sequencing and assembly of the genome of the world’s largest fish, the whale shark: Rhincodon typus Smith 1828

Draft sequencing and assembly of the genome of the world’s largest fish, the whale shark: Rhincodon typus Smith 1828

Abstract Background The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) has by far the largest body size of any elasmobranch (shark or ray) species. Therefore, it is also the largest extant species of the paraphyletic assemblage commonly referred to as fishes. As both a phenotypic extreme and a member of the group Ch...

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Main Authors: Timothy D. Read, Robert A. Petit, Sandeep J. Joseph, Md. Tauqeer Alam, M. Ryan Weil, Maida Ahmad, Ravila Bhimani, Jocelyn S. Vuong, Chad P. Haase, D. Harry Webb, Milton Tan, Alistair D. M. Dove
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-07-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Subjects:
Fish
Whole genome shotgun
Whale shark
Rhincodon typus
Elasmobranch
Gnathostomata
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12864-017-3926-9

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