Genome and transcriptome of chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta)

Chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) is a species of anadromous salmon native with the widest geographic range of the Pacific salmonids. Chum salmon is the second largest of the Pacific salmon behind Chinook and is the most plentiful Pacific salmon by overall biomass. They are often referred to by the common names dog salmon – a reference to enlarged teeth in maturing males that give the appearance of dog-like appearance – or calico salmon – a reference to coloration patterns in sexually mature fish. Self-sustaining populations are distributed from coastal Oregon to the MacKenzie River in the Northwest territories, and from the east side of the Korean peninsula and Northern Japan north through to the Lena River in Northern Russian. This work aims to establish genomic baseline resource for the species by assembling a reference genome from a Chum salmon doubled-haploid. Gene annotation is provided by Illumina RNA-seq across 19 distinct tissues. Resequencing of chum salmon, sampled across its range aims to categorize geographic variation genome-wide.