Takifugu rubripes
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Takifugu rubripes (the Japanese puffer, Tiger puffer, or torafugu (Japanese: 虎河豚), also known as Fugu rubripes) is a pufferfish in the genus Takifugu. A feature of this species is that it has a very small genome, which is used as a ‘reference’ for identifying genes and other elements in human and other vertebrate genomes. The genome was published in 2002,[3] the first vertebrate genome to be made publicly available after the human genome.
Taxonomy
Although often known in the genomics literature as Fugu rubripes, the genus Fugu is a synonym of Takifugu,[4] hence the name Takifugu rubripes is currently used for this fish.
References
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External links
| External identifiers for Takifugu rubripes | |
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| Encyclopedia of Life | 213461 |
| ITIS | 646410 |
| NCBI | 31033 |
| Also found in: Wikispecies | |
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2010). "Takifugu rubripes" in FishBase. December 2010 version.
- NCBI Taxonomy
- Fugu Genome Project
- View the fugu genome on Ensembl
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