Lab of Marine Molluscan Genetics and Breeding

 Institue of Oceanology of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Oyster genome project (Crassostrea gigas)

Scientists from following organizations have contributed to this project:

      Institute of Oceanology of Chinese Academy of Science, PRC

      Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, US

      Beijing Genomics Institute, PRC

      University of Southern California, US

Genome size of Crassostrea gigas is about 824M base pairs

Sequencing method: Illumina solexa & Fosmid

Sequencing progress (2009.5.6): 93× coverage finished | fosmid sequecing = 0.175× coverage finished | contigs (without N) N50 = 3k bp | scaffold = 10k bp | predicted gene number = 25 thousands

Sequencing schedule:

More details see

the abstract of 2008 International Conference on Genomics-Applications in Asia-Pacific: http://www.genomeconference.org/abstracts/abstracts_17.html

and abstract of Plant & Animal Genomes XVII Conference:

http://www.intl-pag.org/17/abstracts/W45_PAGXVII_329.html

Oyster taxonomy of China

Oyster evolution and reproductive isolation