Reference genomes of the Chinese perch (Siniperca chuatsi), the Eurasian perch (Perca fluviatilis) and three related fish species of the family Sinipercidae for comparative genomics and marker assisted breeding in aquaculture

鳜鱼（sininiperca chuatsi），又称鳜鱼或中华鲈鱼，是一种非常有价值的水产养殖鱼类，近二十年来在中国的产量不断增长。本项目旨在提供翘嘴鳜和其他三种鳜科成员（S. kneri、S. scherzeri和C. whitehead）的高质量参考基因组。作为欧洲水产养殖未来感兴趣的一种相关物种，将对这个国际项目进行补充。这些数据将用于在sininipercids /Percids以及更远的Percomorphaceae物种中进行比较基因组分析。为此目的，需要制定生物信息学策略，允许结合染色体共线性、基因和核苷酸水平基因组分析的多物种比较。这些生物信息学工具将有助于回答有关生长、耐盐性和性别分化的生物学问题。

Siniperca chuatsi, also known as Mandarin fish or Chinese perch is a highly valuable aquaculture fish, whose production has been constantly growing over the past twenty years in China. The aim of this project is to provide high quality reference genomes of Siniperca chuatsi and three other members of the Sinipercidae family (S. kneri, S. scherzeri and C. whiteheadi). This international project will be complemented by a reference assembly of Perca fluviatilis as a related species of future interest in European aquaculture. These data will be used to perform comparative genomic analysis within Sinipercids/Percids as well as with more distantly related Percomorphaceae species. For this purpose, bioinformatic strategies need to be developed that allow multi-species comparisons which combine chromosomal collinearity, gene- and nucleotide-level genomic analyses. These bioinformatics tools will help to answer biological questions regarding growth, salinity tolerance and sexual differentiation.