Sushi gets serious: the draft genome sequence of the pufferfish Fugu rubripes

Martin S Taylor; Colin A M Semple

doi:10.1186/gb-2002-3-9-reviews1025

Sushi gets serious: the draft genome sequence of the pufferfish Fugu rubripes

Genome Biol. 2002 Aug 28;3(9):reviews1025. doi: 10.1186/gb-2002-3-9-reviews1025. Epub 2002 Aug 28.

Authors

Martin S Taylor¹, Colin A M Semple

Affiliation

¹ MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK.

Abstract

The publication of the Fugu rubripes draft genome sequence will take this fish from culinary delicacy to potent tool in deciphering the mysteries of human genome function.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Animals
Base Sequence
Conserved Sequence
Fishes / genetics
Genome*
Genome, Human
Genomics
Humans
Interspersed Repetitive Sequences
Mice
Tetraodontiformes / genetics*