Thalassoma bifasciatum
The bluehead wrasse (Thalassoma bifasciatum) is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a wrasse from the family Labridae. It is native to the coral reefs of the tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean. Individuals are small (less than 110 mm standard length) and rarely live longer than two years. They form large schools over the reef and are important cleaner fish in the reefs they inhabit (from Wikipedia entry). This sample of a male individual found in the Florida Keys was procured by John Godwin and Katie Stennette 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.
isolate
fThaBif1
dev_stage
adult
collection_date
2023-08-11
geo_loc_name
USA: Florida Keys, Florida
sex
male
tissue
brain, muscle, testes
biomaterial_provider
North Carolina State University: John Godwin
collected_by
John Godwin, Katie Stennette
lat_lon
24.666944 N 81.544167 W
store_cond
-80oC
treatment
flash frozen
Source ID
TBK23 428-430
BioSampleModel
Model organism or animal