Wyffels Jennifer, King Benjamin L, Vincent James, Chen Chuming, Wu Cathy H, Polson Shawn W
Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19711, USA.
Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory, Salisbury Cove, ME, 04672, USA.
F1000Res. 2014 Aug 12;3:191. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.4996.1. eCollection 2014.
Chondrichthyan fishes are a diverse class of gnathostomes that provide a valuable perspective on fundamental characteristics shared by all jawed and limbed vertebrates. Studies of phylogeny, species diversity, population structure, conservation, and physiology are accelerated by genomic, transcriptomic and protein sequence data. These data are widely available for many sarcopterygii (coelacanth, lungfish and tetrapods) and actinoptergii (ray-finned fish including teleosts) taxa, but limited for chondrichthyan fishes. In this study, we summarize available data for chondrichthyes and describe resources for one of the largest projects to characterize one of these fish, Leucoraja erinacea, the little skate. SkateBase ( http://skatebase.org) serves as the skate genome project portal linking data, research tools, and teaching resources.
软骨鱼类是一类多样的有颌类动物，为研究所有有颌和有肢脊椎动物共有的基本特征提供了宝贵视角。系统发育、物种多样性、种群结构、保护和生理学等方面的研究因基因组、转录组和蛋白质序列数据而加速推进。这些数据在许多肉鳍鱼类（腔棘鱼、肺鱼和四足动物）和辐鳍鱼类（包括硬骨鱼在内的辐鳍鱼）分类群中广泛可得，但在软骨鱼类中却很有限。在本研究中，我们总结了软骨鱼类的现有数据，并描述了一项最大规模项目之一的资源，该项目旨在对其中一种鱼类——小斑猫鲨（Leucoraja erinacea）进行特征描述。SkateBase（http://skatebase.org）作为鲨鱼基因组项目门户，连接数据、研究工具和教学资源。
