[ Opisthokonta | Metazoa | Eumetazoa | . . .
. . . | Tetradontoidea | Tetraodontidae | Takifugu ]
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Taxonomy: | Eukaryota | Opisthokonta | Metazoa | Eumetazoa | Bilateria | Deuterostomia | Chordata | Craniata | Vertebrata | Gnathostomata | Teleostomi | Euteleostomi | Actinopterygii | Actinopteri | Neopterygii | Teleostei | Osteoglossocephalai | Clupeocephala | Euteleosteomorpha | Neoteleostei | Eurypterygia | Ctenosquamata | Acanthomorphata | Euacanthomorphacea | Percomorphaceae | Eupercaria | Tetraodontiformes | Tetraodontoidei | Tetradontoidea | Tetraodontidae | Takifugu |
Synonym: | Fugu rubripes |
Common: | torafugu |
Comment: | The Japanese pufferfish Fugu rubripes has the shortest known genome of any vertebrate species. As vertebrates, fish and humans share not only the defining characteristic of a backbone, but also many basic anatomical and physiological similarities. The compact Fugu genome contains the same basic vertebrate blueprint as the human genome in a sequence seven times shorter. This difference is primarily due to the scarcity in Fugu of the large repeat-filled tracts that litter the human genome. |
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Publications: |
Kai W, Kikuchi K, Tohari S et. al.
( 2011)
Genome Biol Evol 3, 424-442.
Clark MS, Edwards YJ, Peterson D et. al.
( 2003)
Genome Res 13, 2747-53.
Aparicio S, Chapman J, Stupka E et. al.
( 2002)
Science 297, 1301-10.
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