Ichthyomyzon gagei (southern brook lamprey) genome, kcIchGage1 (somatic), sequence data
The southern brook lamprey (Ichthyomyzon gagei) is a lamprey found in the Southern United States including Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia and ranges as far north as Minnesota and Wisconsin. It is a jawless fish with a sucking mouth on one end (from Wikipedia entry). This muscle sample of a male individual found in Wisconsin was procured by Devin Bloom of Western Michigan University to generate a somatic 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.