title: A chromosome-level genome assembly of the Asian arowana, Scleropages formosus.
abstract: Asian arowana (Scleropages formosus), an ancient teleost belonging to the Order Osteoglossomorpha, has been a valuable ornamental fish with some varieties. However, its biological studies and breeding germplasm have been remarkably limited by the lack of a reference genome. To solve these problems, here we report high-quality genome sequences of three common varieties of Asian arowana (the golden, red and green arowana). We firstly generated a chromosome-level genome assembly of the golden arowana, on basis of the genetic linkage map constructed with the restriction site-associated DNA sequencing (RAD-seq). In addition, we obtained draft genome assemblies of the red and green varieties. Finally, we annotated 22,016, 21,256 and 21,524 protein-coding genes in the genome assemblies of golden, red and green varieties respectively. Our data were deposited in publicly accessible repositories to promote biological research and molecular breeding of Asian arowana.
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Lab of Marine Genomics, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Molecular Breeding in Marine Economic Animals, BGI, Shenzhen 518083, China.
authors.forename: Jia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Lab of Marine Genomics, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Molecular Breeding in Marine Economic Animals, BGI, Shenzhen 518083, China.
authors.forename: Chao
authors.identifier: 0000-0001-9904-721X
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bian
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Tropical &Subtropical Fishery Resource Application &Cultivation, Ministry of Agriculture, Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou 510380, China.
authors.forename: Yinchang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Tropical &Subtropical Fishery Resource Application &Cultivation, Ministry of Agriculture, Pearl River Fisheries Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Guangzhou 510380, China.
authors.forename: Xidong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Mu
authors.affiliation: Reproductive Genomics Group, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore 117604, Singapore.
authors.forename: Xueyan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR, Biopolis, Singapore 138673, Singapore.
authors.forename: Vydianathan
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-0807-7697
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ravi
authors.affiliation: Reproductive Genomics Group, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore 117604, Singapore.|Laboratory of Chromosome Structure and Function, Department of Cytology and Histology, Biological Faculty, Saint Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg 198504, Russia.
authors.forename: Inna S
authors.initials: IS
authors.lastname: Kuznetsova
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Lab of Marine Genomics, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Molecular Breeding in Marine Economic Animals, BGI, Shenzhen 518083, China.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Lab of Marine Genomics, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Molecular Breeding in Marine Economic Animals, BGI, Shenzhen 518083, China.
authors.forename: Xinxin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: You
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Lab of Marine Genomics, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Molecular Breeding in Marine Economic Animals, BGI, Shenzhen 518083, China.
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Qiu
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Lab of Marine Genomics, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Molecular Breeding in Marine Economic Animals, BGI, Shenzhen 518083, China.
authors.forename: Xinhui
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Lab of Marine Genomics, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Molecular Breeding in Marine Economic Animals, BGI, Shenzhen 518083, China.
authors.forename: Hui
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Lab of Marine Genomics, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Molecular Breeding in Marine Economic Animals, BGI, Shenzhen 518083, China.
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuxi 214081, China.
authors.forename: Pao
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Freshwater Fisheries Research Center, Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences, Wuxi 214081, China.|BGI-Zhenjiang Institute of Hydrobiology, Zhenjiang 212000, China.
authors.forename: Ruobo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Lab of Marine Genomics, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Molecular Breeding in Marine Economic Animals, BGI, Shenzhen 518083, China.|BGI-Zhenjiang Institute of Hydrobiology, Zhenjiang 212000, China.
authors.forename: Junmin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.affiliation: Reproductive Genomics Group, Temasek Life Sciences Laboratory, Singapore 117604, Singapore.
authors.forename: László
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Orbán
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, A*STAR, Biopolis, Singapore 138673, Singapore.
authors.forename: Byrappa
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Venkatesh
authors.affiliation: Shenzhen Key Lab of Marine Genomics, Guangdong Provincial Key Lab of Molecular Breeding in Marine Economic Animals, BGI, Shenzhen 518083, China.|BGI-Zhenjiang Institute of Hydrobiology, Zhenjiang 212000, China.|Marine Research Center, College of Life Sciences, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China.
authors.forename: Qiong
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Shi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D002875:Chromosomes / Q000235:genetics; D032621:DNA Shuffling; D005399:Fishes / Q000235:genetics*; D008040:Genetic Linkage; D016678:Genome; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA