| Value |
1.41e+9
bp
Range: 26,206 protein coding genes bp
|
| Organism |
Zebrafish Danio rerio |
| Reference |
Howe K et al., The zebrafish reference genome sequence and its relationship to the human genome. Nature. 2013 Apr 25 496(7446):498-503. doi: 10.1038/nature12111. p.499 table 1PubMed ID23594743
|
| Method |
"[Researchers] generated a high-
quality sequence assembly of the zebrafish genome, made up of an
overlapping set of completely sequenced large-insert clones that were
ordered and oriented using a high-resolution high-density meiotic
map." |
| Comments |
p.499 left column 2nd paragraph:"The zebrafish genome-sequencing project was initiated at the
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in 2001. [Researchers] chose Tubingen as the zebrafish reference strain as it had been used extensively to identify
mutations affecting embryogenesis
[ref 2]. [Their] strategy resembled the clone-by-clone sequencing approach adopted previously for both the human
and mouse genome projects. The Zv9 assembly is a hybrid of high-quality finished clone sequence (83%) and whole-genome shotgun(WGS)
sequence (17%), with a total size of 1.412 gigabases (Gb) (Table 1)." According to table 1 total length(bp) 1,412,464,843. p.499 left column 3rd paragraph: "Zebrafish possess 26,206 protein-coding genes [ref 6], more than
any previously sequenced vertebrate, and they have a higher number of species-specific genes in their genome than do human, mouse or chicken. Some of this increased gene number is likely to be a consequence of the TSD [teleost-specific genome duplication]." |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
111374 |