A de novo transcriptome assembly of the Brazilian blind characid, Stygichthys typhlops (Characiformes)

Here, we assembled a de novo transcriptome for the Brazilian blind characid. We identified a total of 27,845 assembled unigenes, of which 22,580 were assigned as putative one-to-one orthologs to the Mexican cavefish. We then performed in silico capture of 15 candidate genes related to cave-adaptive evolution from reference genomes as well as our assembled Stygichthys transcriptome.