Genetic mapping and comparative genomics to inform restoration enhancement and culture of southern flounder, Paralichthys lethostigma

Date

2018-02-23

Authors

O’Leary, Shannon J.
Hollenbeck, Christopher
Vega, Robert R.
Gold, John R.
Portnoy, David S.

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BMC

Abstract

Southern flounder, Paralichthys lethostigma, historically support a substantial fishery along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the southern United States. Low year-class strengths over the past few years in the western Gulf of Mexico have raised concern that spawning stocks may be overfished. Current management of the resource includes releasing hatchery-raised juveniles to restock bays and estuaries; additionally, there is a growing interest in the potential for commercial aquaculture of the species. Currently, genomic resources for southern flounder do not exist. Here, we used two hatchery-reared families and double-digest, restriction-site-associated DNA (ddRAD) sequencing to create a reduced-representation genomic library consisting of several thousand single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) located throughout the genome.

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Keywords

linkage map, radseq, aquaculture, synteny

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Attribution 4.0 International

Citation

O’Leary, S.J., Hollenbeck, C.M., Vega, R.R., Gold, J.R. and Portnoy, D.S., 2018. Genetic mapping and comparative genomics to inform restoration enhancement and culture of southern flounder, Paralichthys lethostigma. BMC genomics, 19(1), pp.1-11.