Nature Communications (Jun 2016)

The channel catfish genome sequence provides insights into the evolution of scale formation in teleosts

  • Zhanjiang Liu,
  • Shikai Liu,
  • Jun Yao,
  • Lisui Bao,
  • Jiaren Zhang,
  • Yun Li,
  • Chen Jiang,
  • Luyang Sun,
  • Ruijia Wang,
  • Yu Zhang,
  • Tao Zhou,
  • Qifan Zeng,
  • Qiang Fu,
  • Sen Gao,
  • Ning Li,
  • Sergey Koren,
  • Yanliang Jiang,
  • Aleksey Zimin,
  • Peng Xu,
  • Adam M. Phillippy,
  • Xin Geng,
  • Lin Song,
  • Fanyue Sun,
  • Chao Li,
  • Xiaozhu Wang,
  • Ailu Chen,
  • Yulin Jin,
  • Zihao Yuan,
  • Yujia Yang,
  • Suxu Tan,
  • Eric Peatman,
  • Jianguo Lu,
  • Zhenkui Qin,
  • Rex Dunham,
  • Zhaoxia Li,
  • Tad Sonstegard,
  • Jianbin Feng,
  • Roy G. Danzmann,
  • Steven Schroeder,
  • Brian Scheffler,
  • Mary V. Duke,
  • Linda Ballard,
  • Huseyin Kucuktas,
  • Ludmilla Kaltenboeck,
  • Haixia Liu,
  • Jonathan Armbruster,
  • Yangjie Xie,
  • Mona L. Kirby,
  • Yi Tian,
  • Mary Elizabeth Flanagan,
  • Weijie Mu,
  • Geoffrey C. Waldbieser

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11757
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Catfish represent 6.3% of all vertebrate species, and occupy a phylogenetic position close to the common ancestor of bony fish. Liu et al. present a reference genome of the channel catfish, and reveal a genomic basis for the evolutionary loss of scales in these species.