Clupea pallasii isolate:417290 Genome sequencing
Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) serve as a critical trophic link between plankton and many marine species targeted by fisheries throughout the North Pacific Ocean, from the Arctic to temperate latitudes, with ecological, economic, and cultural importance. Genomic resources, such as reference genome assemblies, have only recently become available. We produced a high quality 795Mb genome sequence organized into 26 chromosomes combining long read sequencing with short read sequencing of proximity ligation libraries. Pacific herring south of the Aleutian Islands and the Alaska Peninsula are genetically differentiated from those in the Bering Sea, making a reference genome from the eastern Bering Sea an important addition to the Pacific herring genomic tool box, and a step toward a Pacific herring pangenome.