Takifugu rubripes

Takifugu rubripes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Tetraodontiformes
Family: Tetraodontidae
Genus: Takifugu
Species: T. rubripes
Binomial name
Takifugu rubripes
(Temminck & Schlegel, 1850)

Takifugu rubripes (also known as Fugu rubripes) is a pufferfish in the genus Takifugu. A feature of this species is that it has a very small genome, which is used as a ‘reference’ for identifying genes and other elements in human and other vertebrate genomes. The genome was published in 2002[1], the first vertebrate genome to be made publicly available after the human genome.

Taxonomy

Although often known in the genomics literature as Fugu rubripes, the genus Fugu is a synonym of Takifugu[2], hence the name Takifugu rubripes is currently used for this fish.

References

  1. ^ Aparicio S, Chapman J, Stupka E, Putnam N, Chia JM, Dehal P, Christoffels A, Rash S, Hoon S, Smit A, et al. (2002). "Whole-genome shotgun assembly and analysis of the genome of Fugu rubripes". Science 297: 1301–1310. doi:10.1126/science.1072104. PMID 12142439. 
  2. ^ Keiichi Matsuura (1990). "The pufferfish genus Fugu Abe, 1952, a junior subjective synonym of Takifugu Abe, 1949". Bull. Natn. Sci. Mus., Tokyo, Ser. A. 16: 15–20. http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110004311733. 

External links

External identifiers for Takifugu rubripes
EOL 213461
ITIS 646410
NCBI 31033
Also found in: [//species.wikimedia.org/wiki/Takifugu_rubripes Wikispecies]