Thalassoma bifasciatum (bluehead wrasse) genome, fThaBif1, sequence data

The bluehead wrasse (Thalassoma bifasciatum) is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a wrasse from the family Labridae. It is native to the coral reefs of the tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean. Individuals are small (less than 110 mm standard length) and rarely live longer than two years. They form large schools over the reef and are important cleaner fish in the reefs they inhabit (from Wikipedia entry). This sample of a male individual found in the Florida Keys was procured by John Godwin and Katie Stennette to generate a high-quality reference genome for the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP). Sequencing and genome assembly were conducted at the Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL) at the Rockefeller University, led by Erich D. Jarvis, Giulio Formenti, and Jennifer Balacco.

蓝头锦鱼（Thalassoma bifasciatum）是一种海洋辐鳍鱼类（ray-finned fish），隶属于隆头鱼科（Labridae）。该物种原生分布于西大西洋热带海域的珊瑚礁生境中。其个体体型小巧，标准体长（standard length）不足110毫米，寿命极少超过两年。它们常于礁体上方形成大规模鱼群，是其所栖息珊瑚礁生态系统中重要的清洁鱼类（cleaner fish）（内容引自维基百科词条）。本次用于为脊椎动物基因组计划（Vertebrate Genomes Project, VGP）构建高质量参考基因组的雄性个体样本，采自佛罗里达群岛，由约翰·戈德温（John Godwin）与凯蒂·斯坦内特（Katie Stennette）采集获取。测序及基因组组装工作由洛克菲勒大学脊椎基因组实验室（Vertebrate Genome Lab, VGL）完成，该项目由埃里希·D·贾维斯（Erich D. Jarvis）、朱利奥·福尔门蒂（Giulio Formenti）与珍妮弗·巴拉科（Jennifer Balacco）牵头负责。