The genome sequence of the Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua (Linnaeus, 1758)

Sissel Jentoft; Ole K Tørresen; Ave Tooming-Klunderud; Morten Skage; Spyridon Kollias; Kjetill S Jakobsen; 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; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.21122.1

The genome sequence of the Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua (Linnaeus, 1758)

Wellcome Open Res. 2024 Apr 12:9:189. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.21122.1. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Sissel Jentoft¹, Ole K Tørresen¹, Ave Tooming-Klunderud², Morten Skage², Spyridon Kollias², Kjetill S Jakobsen¹; 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; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
² Norwegian Sequencing Centre, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Gadus morhua (the Atlantic cod; Chordata; Actinopteri; Gadiformes; Gadidae). The genome sequence is 669.9 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 23 chromosomal pseudomolecules. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl identified 23,515 protein coding genes.

Keywords: Atlantic cod; Gadiformes; Gadus morhua; chromosomal; genome sequence.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by Wellcome through core funding to the Wellcome Sanger Institute [206194, https://doi.org/10.35802/206194] and the Darwin Tree of Life Discretionary Award [218328, https://doi.org/10.35802/218328 ], and by the research Council of Norway (grant number 221734/O30) to K.S.J.