The genome sequence of the European plaice, Pleuronectes platessa (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rachel Brittain; Mitchell Brenen; Sean McTierney; Patrick Adkins; Robert Mrowicki; Joanna Harley; Marine Biological Association Genome Acquisition Lab; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19397.1

The genome sequence of the European plaice, Pleuronectes platessa (Linnaeus, 1758)

Wellcome Open Res. 2023 Aug 30:8:367. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.19397.1. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Rachel Brittain¹, Mitchell Brenen¹, Sean McTierney¹, Patrick Adkins¹, Robert Mrowicki¹, Joanna Harley¹; Marine Biological Association Genome Acquisition Lab; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life programme; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: DNA Pipelines collective; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

Affiliation

¹ The Marine Biological Association, Plymouth, England, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual Pleuronectes platessa(the European plaice; Chordata; Actinopteri; Pleuronectiformes; Pleuronectidae). The genome sequence is 687.4 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 24 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 17.4 kilobases in length.

Keywords: European plaice; Pleuronectes platessa; chromosomal; Pleuronectiformes; genome sequence.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by Wellcome through core funding to the Wellcome Sanger Institute (206194, https://doi.org/10.35802/206194) and the Darwin Tree of Life Discretionary Award (218328, https://doi.org/10.35802/218328).