Data from: The spotted parrotfish genome provides evolutionary insight into the ecological adaptation of a keystone dietary specialist

The spotted parrotfish genomes (Cetoscarus ocellatus) was sequenced and assembled to investigate the evolution of this coral reef fish group, and to provide genomic resources for studies on the Scarini. This genome was assembled using a combination of long-read, linked-read, and Hi-C data (the raw seqeunce data are avalable on the SRA database under BioProject accession PRJNA1081164). Assembly methods are outlined in the associated manuscript. Briefly, an initial de novo assembly of the PacBio long-read data was performed using Canu v.2.1.1 with default settings and an estimated genome size of 1.4 Gb (based on published labrid genomes). TELL-seq linked reads were used to scaffold the draft de novo long-read assembly and improve its contiguity using Long Ranger basic v2.2.2, ARCS v1.2, and LINKS v1.8.7. Finally, Hi-C reads were aligned to the ARCS/LINKS-scaffolded draft assembly. The genome was annotated using FGENESH++.