Division of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Red Sea Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, 23955, Saudi Arabia.
Department of Environment and Agriculture, Curtin University, PO Box U1987, Perth, WA, 6845, Australia.
Mol Ecol Resour. 2018 Mar;18(2):347-355. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.12588. Epub 2016 Aug 29.
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.
蝴蝶鱼是最具代表性的珊瑚礁鱼类之一，是研究生物地理学、进化和种群遗传学一般问题的典型模式系统。我们组装并注释了黑尾蝴蝶鱼（Chaetodon austriacus）的基因组序列，这是一种阿拉伯地区特有的物种，依赖珊瑚礁作为食物和庇护所。利用现有的硬骨鱼类（超类 Osteichthyes）基因组作为参考，从 13967 个组装支架中共预测了 28926 个高质量的蛋白质编码基因。C. austriacus 基因组草图的质量和完整性表明，它有可能成为研究珊瑚鱼适应独特红海环境的共同进化的资源，以及在热带印度-太平洋地区广泛分布的同种蝴蝶鱼的基因序列比较。
