The genome sequence of the marbled rockcod, Notothenia rossii Richardson, 1844

Iliana Bista; Martin Collins; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.21270.1

The genome sequence of the marbled rockcod, Notothenia rossii Richardson, 1844

Wellcome Open Res. 2024 Apr 24:9:227. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.21270.1. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Iliana Bista^{1

2

3}, Martin Collins⁴; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective

Affiliations

¹ LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics, Frankfurt, Germany.
² Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt, Germany.
³ Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, South Holland, The Netherlands.
⁴ British Antarctic Survey, NERC, Cambridge, England, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual Notothenia rossii (the marbled rockcod; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Perciformes; Nototheniidae). The genome sequence is 1,042.9 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 12 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 21.68 kilobases in length. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl identified 24,432 protein coding genes.

Keywords: Notothenia rossii; Perciformes; chromosomal; genome sequence; marbled rockcod.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by Wellcome through core funding to the Wellcome Sanger Institute [206194, https://doi.org/10.35802/206194]. Specimen collection was supported by a Collaborative Antarctic Science Scheme fund (CASS) (CASS-174/2019) by the British Antarctic Survey awarded to IB. IB is supported by the Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics (LOEWE-TBG) through the program LOEWE–Landes-Offensive zur Entwicklung Wissenschaftlich-ökonomischer Exzellenz of Hesse's Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and the Arts.