Turbot

The final turbot assembly sm5 spans 544 Mb (~96% of estimated genome content) with N50 of 4.3 Mb, transposable elements representing ~5%. We could identify 22,751 genes transcribed into 28,189 mRNAs by using gene prediction and empirical transcriptomic data. An 80% of the genome assembly could be anchored to the current turbot genetic map, thus enabling comparative mapping with other fish genomes and facilitating the consolidation of turbot map in accordance with its karyotype.