organism: Alepocephalus tenebrosus
description: The California slickhead (Alepocephalus tenebrosus) is a species of deep water fish belonging to the family Alepocephalidae (from Wikipedia entry). This sample of an individual of unknown sex was originally collected near Southern California and was procured by Andrew Bentley of the KU Biodiversity Institute in Kansas and coordinated by Paul Hime of Washington University in St. Louis 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.