organism: Stylephorus chordatus
description: Stylephorus chordatus, the tube-eye or thread-tail, is a deep-sea ray-finned fish, the only species in the genus Stylephorus and family Stylephoridae (from Wikipedia entry). This sample of a male individual was procured by Thomas Near and Gregory Watkins-Colwell and used to generate a high-quality reference genome for the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP). Sequencing and genome assembly were conducted at the Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL) at the Rockefeller University, led by Erich D. Jarvis, Giulio Formenti, and Jennifer Balacco. Manual curation was done by Genoscope in France.