Nature 447, 714-719 (7 June 2007) | doi:10.1038/nature05846; Received 10
November 2006; Accepted 11 April 2007

The medaka draft genome and insights into vertebrate genome evolution

Masahiro Kasahara, Kiyoshi Naruse, Shin Sasaki, Yoichiro Nakatani, Wei Qu,
Budrul Ahsan, Tomoyuki Yamada, Yukinobu Nagayasu, Koichiro Doi, Yasuhiro
Kasai, Tomoko Jindo, Daisuke Kobayashi, Atsuko Shimada, Atsushi Toyoda, Yoko
Kuroki, Asao Fujiyama, Takashi Sasaki, Atsushi Shimizu, Shuichi Asakawa,
Nobuyoshi Shimizu, Shin-ichi Hashimoto, Jun Yang, Yongjun Lee, Kouji
Matsushima, Sumio Sugano, Mitsuru Sakaizumi, Takanori Narita, Kazuko Ohishi,
Shinobu Haga, Fumiko Ohta, Hisayo Nomoto, Keiko Nogata, Tomomi Morishita,
Tomoko Endo, Tadasu Shin-I, Hiroyuki Takeda, Shinichi Morishita & Yuji
Kohara

Abstract:
Teleosts comprise more than half of all vertebrate species and have adapted
to a variety of marine and freshwater habitats. Their genome evolution and
diversification are important subjects for...