Decoding the transcriptome of sharks, rays, and chimaeras: Insights into their physiology, morphology, evolution, and biomedical applications

MJ Seixas, RR Domingues, A Antunes - Fishes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Chondrichthyes (including sharks, rays, and chimaeras) are a class of jawed cartilaginous
fishes (with skeletons composed primarily of cartilage), with major relevance to the marine …

De novo transcriptome for Chiloscyllium griseum, a long-tail carpet shark of the Indian waters

P Harshan, S Sukumaran, A Gopalakrishnan - Scientific Data, 2024 - nature.com
Sharks have thrived in the oceans for 400 million years, experienced five extinctions and
evolved into today's apex predators. However, enormous genome size, poor karyotyping …

De novo assembly of the kidney and spleen transcriptomes of the cosmopolitan blue shark, Prionace glauca

AM Machado, T Almeida, G Mucientes, PJ Esteves… - Marine genomics, 2018 - Elsevier
Cartilaginous fishes (sharks, rays and chimaeras) comprise a highly diversified group of
basal vertebrates occupying a plethora of ecological aquatic niches. They represent critical …

Taking advantage of the genomics revolution for monitoring and conservation of chondrichthyan populations

S Johri, MP Doane, L Allen, EA Dinsdale - Diversity, 2019 - mdpi.com
Chondrichthyes (sharks, rays, skates and chimaeras) are among the oldest extant predators
and are vital to top-down regulation of oceanic ecosystems. They are an ecologically diverse …

[HTML][HTML] Full-Length Transcriptome of the Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) Facilitates the Genome Information

F Lou, L Wang, Z Wang, L Wang, L Zhao… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Rhincodon typus is a keystone and indicator species in marine ecosystems. Meanwhile, R.
typus has been listed on the IUCN red list of vulnerable species. Here we used ONT platform …

State of shark and ray genomics in an era of extinction

J Pearce, MW Fraser, AMM Sequeira… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Chondrichthyan species (sharks, rays, skates, and chimeras) are a class of high ecological,
economic, and cultural significance, and yet they are the most threatened taxa in the marine …

A de novo transcriptome assembly of the zebra bullhead shark, Heterodontus zebra

K Onimaru, K Tatsumi, K Shibagaki, S Kuraku - Scientific Data, 2018 - nature.com
Although cartilaginous fishes have played crucial roles in various fields, including
evolutionary biology, marine ecology, bioresources, and aquarium exhibitions, molecular …

Characterization of the heart transcriptome of the white shark (Carcharodon carcharias)

VP Richards, H Suzuki, MJ Stanhope, MS Shivji - BMC genomics, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Background The white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) is a globally distributed,
apex predator possessing physical, physiological, and behavioral traits that have garnered it …

Shark genomes provide insights into elasmobranch evolution and the origin of vertebrates

Y Hara, K Yamaguchi, K Onimaru, M Kadota… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
Modern cartilaginous fishes are divided into elasmobranchs (sharks, rays and skates) and
chimaeras, and the lack of established whole-genome sequences for the former has …

Multi-tissue RNA-seq and transcriptome characterisation of the spiny dogfish shark (Squalus acanthias) provides a molecular tool for biological research and reveals …

A Chana-Munoz, A Jendroszek, M Sønnichsen… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The spiny dogfish shark (Squalus acanthias) is one of the most commonly used
cartilaginous fishes in biological research, especially in the fields of nitrogen metabolism …