Chungtien schizothoracin Genome sequencing and assembly
This project presents the genome sequencing, assembly, and annotation of Ptychobarbus chungtienensis (Chungtien schizothoracin), a schizothoracid fish species endemic to the plateau waters of northwestern Yunnan, China. The assembly was generated using PacBio HiFi long-read sequencing, Hi-C scaffolding, and integrated with RNA-seq and PacBio Iso-seq data for gene annotation. The haplotype-resolved chromosome-level reference genome (hap1) has a total size of approximately 3.48 Gb, with a scaffold N50 of 126.44 Mb and BUSCO completeness of 98.7%. This genomic resource provides a foundational reference for gene function annotation, comparative genomics, phylogenetic analysis, and conservation genetics of P. chungtienensis and related schizothoracid fishes.