State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics, BGI-Shenzhen, Building 11, Beishan Industrial Zone, Yantian District, Shenzhen, 518083, China.
Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 7 Donghu South Road, Wuchang District, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
Center for Ecological and Environmental Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 1 Dongxiang Road, Chang'an District, Xi'an Shaanxi,710129, China.
Frasergen, Donghu High-Tech Development Zone, Donghu High-Tech Development Zone, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.
Integrative Biology Laboratory, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, No.1 Wenyuan Road Qixia District, Nanjing, 210023, China.
Comparative and Endocrine Biology Laboratory, Translational Research Institute-Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, School of Biomedical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane 4102, Queensland, Australia.
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
Biological and Environmental Sciences & Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Key Laboratory of Marine Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 7 Nanhai Road, Qingdao, Shandong 266071, China.
Marine Ecology and Environmental Science Laboratory, Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, 1 Wenhai Road,Aoshanwei,Jimo, Qingdao,Shandong, 266237, China.
Center for Ocean Mega-Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 7, Nanhai Road, Qingdao City, 266400, China.
Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada.
background: With more than 30,000 species, fish-including bony, jawless, and cartilaginous fish-are the largest vertebrate group, and include some of the earliest vertebrates. Despite their critical roles in many ecosystems and human society, fish genomics lags behind work on birds and mammals. This severely limits our understanding of evolution and hinders progress on the conservation and sustainable utilization of fish.
results: Here, we announce the Fish10K project, a portion of the Earth BioGenome Project aiming to sequence 10,000 representative fish genomes in a systematic fashion within 10 years, and we officially welcome collaborators to join this effort. As a step towards this goal, we herein describe a feasible workflow for the procurement and storage of biospecimens, as well as sequencing and assembly strategies.
conclusions: To illustrate, we present the genomes of 10 fish species from a cohort of 93 species chosen for technology development.
