The research group included Professor Kakuhiro of the National Institute of Genetics, Assistant Professor Kazuya Fukuda of Kitasato University's Department of Marine Life Sciences, Technician Mitsutaka Kadota of the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, and Senior Technician Shinya Yamauchi of Aquamarine Fukushima. succeeded in reading the entire genome information of Pacific saury and published it on the Internet.
According to Kitasato University, the research group artificially incubated Aquamarine Fukushi in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, obtained DNA fragment information from grown saury fish, and reconstructed the DNA sequence of the chromosome, which consists of tens of millions of bases.
Pacific saury has long been a favorite of the Japanese as an autumn delicacy, but prices have recently soared due to a decline in the catch. Since the catch was relatively stable and the price was low, biological research had not progressed much.
Therefore, the research group will collaborate with highly specialized engineers and researchers across fields, and will also include engineers from Aquamarine Fukushima, the only company in the world that has succeeded in successive breeding and exhibition of saury. The research achieved results in a short period of time since the start of the research.
The research group hopes that publishing the genome information on the Internet will spur research on saury.
Paper information:[DNA Research]Chromosomal DNA sequences of the Pacific saury genome: versatile resources for fishery science and comparative biology
