The genome and transcriptome of the Patagonia robalo Eleginops maclovinus

<i>Eleginops maclovinus</i>, the Patagonian robalo, is a species of notothenioid fish found in coastal and estuarine habitats around southernmost South America, ranging as far north as Valparaíso on the Pacific side, and Uruguay on the Atlantic side. It is the only member of its genus, which is the only member of the family Eleginopsidae. It is an omnivore, tending towards carnivore. In some parts of its range, it is especially fond of Paracorophium, but it is opportunistic, and its exact diet depends on the availability in the habitat where the individual fish lives. It reaches about 105 cm (3.44 ft) in length, and can live for 10 years. It is a protandric hermaphrodite, and males predominate in lengths below 52 cm (1.71 ft), while female predominate above.<br> Here we provide the chromosome-level genome assembly of <i>E. maclovinus</i> using the Illumina, PacBio, and Hi-C sequencing data. A total of ~411Gb of raw data covering the predicted genome length ~780Mb to ~ 590× read depth. The de novo genome assembly of ~727 Mb generated a scaffold N50 of ~0.69 Mb with 22,959 intact predicted protein-coding gene models. BUSCO evaluation demonstrated that the genome completeness reached 95.0%. Additionally we demonstrat expression profiles and sequence variations with RNA seq data from 13 tissues (liver, gill, stomach, white muscle, red muscle, skin, small intestine, brain, head kidney, caudal kidney, spleen, and ovary ).