Advances in genomics for flatfish aquaculture

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Table 1 Genome size and number of chromosomes of different flatfishes of interest in European aquaculture, and recently developed bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) libraries and NGS platforms and applications

Species	Common name	Family	Genome size^a	No. of chromosomes	BAC	NGS platform	Application	References
Scophthalmus maximus	Turbot	Scophthalmidae	0.65–0.86	22	~40,000 clones of ~125 kb	454, Solid	RNA-seq, de novo genome sequencing	Bouza et al. (1994), Cuñado et al. (2001), P. Martinez (personal communication)
Hippoglossus hippoglossus	Atlantic halibut	Pleuronectidae	0.73	24	35,328 clones of 100 kb	454	De novo genome sequencing	Brown et al. (1997), Mechaly et al. (2010), M. Reith (personal communication)
Solea senegalensis	Senegalese sole	Soleidae		21	29,184 clones of 100–300 kb	454, Illumina	RNA-seq, de novo genome sequencing	Cross et al. (2006), Ponce et al. (2011)
Solea solea	Common sole	Soleidae	0.73	21		Illumina	RNA-seq	X. Cousin (personal communication)

^aExpressed as pg DNA/haploid cell (data obtained from Animal Genome Size Database, www.genomesize.com)

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