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September 22, 2019  |  

First draft genome for red sea bream of family Sparidae.

Authors: Shin, Ga-Hee and Shin, Younhee and Jung, Myunghee and Hong, Ji-Man and Lee, Sangmin and Subramaniyam, Sathiyamoorthy and Noh, Eun-Soo and Shin, Eun-Ha and Park, Eun-Hee and Park, Jung Youn and Kim, Young-Ok and Choi, Kwnag-Min and Nam, Bo-Hye and Park, Chan-Il

Reference genomes for all organisms on earth are now attainable owing to advances in genome sequencing technologies (Goodwin et al., 2016). Generally, species that contribute considerably to the economy or human welfare are sequenced and are considered more important than others. Furthermore, coastal indigenous people mainly depend on marine species for their food sources, which has resulted in the extinction of several marine species (Cisneros-Montemayor et al., 2016). Of these, an extinction risk assessment of marine fishes, mainly for sea breams (Family: Sparidae), has recently been conducted by way of a global extinction risk assessment from the dataset of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List Process, which mentions that around 25 species are threatened/near-threatened according to their body weight (Comeros-Raynal et al., 2016). Another report clearly showed the benefit of worldwide aquaculture production, which contributed to 47% of total seafood production, and also highlighted the over-fishing of sea breams (FAO, 2018). The Republic of Korea is the fourth largest seafood producer in the world, producing 3.3 million tons in 2015 and exporting seafood worth $1.6 billion in 2016; therefore, aquaculture- associated research is fundamental for Korea. In the present study, the red sea bream (Pagrus major), which belongs to the family Sparidae, which comprises 35 genera, 132 species, and 10 subspecies (de la Herran et al., 2001; NCBI, 2018), was assessed.

Journal: Frontiers in genetics
DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2018.00643
Year: 2018

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