Alosa sapidissima
The American shad (Alosa sapidissima) is a species of anadromous clupeid fish (born in fresh water, but live as adults in salt water), distributed on the North American coast of the North Atlantic, from Newfoundland to Florida. The were common food for European colonist of the Eastern United States (source Wikipedia). This sample was collected from an adult female by Reid Hyle for Nina Overgaard Therkildsen, from the St. Johns River, Florida, USA , and used to generate a high-quality reference genome assembly for the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP). Sequencing and genome assembly were conducted at the Vertebrate Genomes Lab, at the Rockefeller University, coordinated by Olivier Fedrigo and Erich D. Jarvis.
isolate
fAloSap1
dev_stage
adult
sex
male
tissue
muscle
biomaterial_provider
Nina Overgaard Therkildsen
collected_by
Reid Hyle
collection_date
2020-02-07
geo_loc_name
USA: St. Johns River, Florida
lat_lon
28.438892 N 81.894728 W
specimen_voucher
AsapiF_1
store_cond
frozen -80oC
treatment
flash frozen
BioSampleModel
Model organism or animal