The reference genome of Macropodus opercularis (the paradise fish)

Erika FODOR; Javan OKENDO; Nóra SZABÓ; Kata SZABÓ; Dávid CZIMER; Anita TARJÁN-RÁCZ; Ildikó SZEVERÉNYI; Bi Wei LOW; Jia Huan LIEW; Sergey KOREN; Arang RHIE; László ORBÁN; Ádám MIKLÓSI; Máté VARGA; Shawn M. BURGESS

doi:10.1038/s41597-024-03277-1

The reference genome of Macropodus opercularis (the paradise fish)

Erika FODOR, Javan OKENDO, Nóra SZABÓ, Kata SZABÓ, Dávid CZIMER, Anita TARJÁN-RÁCZ, Ildikó SZEVERÉNYI, Bi Wei LOW, Jia Huan LIEW, Sergey KOREN, Arang RHIE, László ORBÁN, Ádám MIKLÓSI, Máté VARGA^*, Shawn M. BURGESS^*

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Abstract

Amongst fishes, zebrafish (Danio rerio) has gained popularity as a model system over most other species and while their value as a model is well documented, their usefulness is limited in certain fields of research such as behavior. By embracing other, less conventional experimental organisms, opportunities arise to gain broader insights into evolution and development, as well as studying behavioral aspects not available in current popular model systems. The anabantoid paradise fish (Macropodus opercularis), an “air-breather” species has a highly complex behavioral repertoire and has been the subject of many ethological investigations but lacks genomic resources. Here we report the reference genome assembly of M. opercularis using long-read sequences at 150-fold coverage. The final assembly consisted of 483,077,705 base pairs (~483 Mb) on 152 contigs. Within the assembled genome we identified and annotated 20,157 protein coding genes and assigned ~90% of them to orthogroups.

Original language	English
Article number	540
Pages (from-to)	540
Journal	Scientific data
Volume	11
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03277-1
Publication status	Published - 24 May 2024

Bibliographical note

The authors thank Lars Martin Jakt and his team for early access to their unpublished data. This work utilized the computational resources of the NIH HPC Biowulf cluster (http://hpc.nih.gov). We would like to thank Adam Phillippy and Brandon Pickett for helpful discussions.

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© This is a U.S. Government work and not under copyright protection in the US; foreign copyright protection may apply 2024.

Funding

The research project was part of the ELTE Thematic Excellence Programme 2020 supported by the National Research, Development, and Innovation Office (TKP2020-IKA-05) and by the ÚNKP-22-5 New National Excellence Program of the Ministry of Culture and Innovation from the source of the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund. This research was supported in part by the Intramural Research Program of the National Human Genome Research Institute (ZIAHG000183-22) for SB. LO and ISz were supported by the Frontline Research Excellence Grant of the NRDI (KKP 140353). MV is a János Bolyai fellow of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Open access funding provided by the National Institutes of Health.

Keywords

Animals
Fishes/genetics
Genome

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This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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The reference genome of Macropodus opercularis (the paradise fish)

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