ERGA-BGE reference genome of Gambusia holbrooki, a globally invasive freshwater fish
Bonnie Fraser, Clelia Gasparini, Francesco Santi, Astrid Böhne, Rita Monteiro, Thomas Marcussen, Rebekah A. Oomen, Torsten H. Struck, Aarushi Vaidya, Aarushi Vaidya, Abitha Thomas, Adam Bates, Aleksandra Bliznina, Alex Makunin, Amit Vishwakumar, Amy Denton, Andy Griffiths, Anna Kovalevskaia, Arif Ma · 2026
Read ERGA-BGE reference genome of Gambusia holbrooki, a globally invasive freshwater fish by Bonnie Fraser, Clelia Gasparini, Francesco Santi, Astrid Böhne, Rita Monteiro, Thomas Marcussen, Rebekah A. Oomen, Torsten H. Struck, Aarushi Vaidya, Aarushi Vaidya, Abitha Thomas, Adam Bates, Aleksandra Bliznina, Alex Makunin, Amit Vishwakumar, Amy Denton, Andy Griffiths, Anna Kovalevskaia, Arif Ma (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13291747.txt.
Description
Bonnie Fraser and a large consortium present a reference genome for the eastern mosquitofish in 2026. Gambusia holbrooki is a small freshwater fish spread worldwide to eat mosquito larvae. It now ranks among the most damaging invasive fish, harming native species on several continents. The team assembled its genome into two parental copies and chose the primary copy as the reference. Chromosome-level scaffolding organized the sequence for annotation.
The assembly spans about 0.67 billion letters across twenty-four chromosome-scale pieces plus the mitochondrial genome. It rests on 421 contigs joined into 318 scaffolds, with strong continuity scores. Because the fish also anchors research on life history evolution, a solid reference serves two fields at once. Invasion biologists can trace which genes travel with successful colonizers. Comparative genomicists gain another member of a fast-growing fish family model. The resource comes from the ERGA-BGE genome program and is openly shared.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Bonnie Fraser, Clelia Gasparini, Francesco Santi, Astrid Böhne, Rita Monteiro, Thomas Marcussen, Rebekah A. Oomen, Torsten H. Struck, Aarushi Vaidya, Aarushi Vaidya, Abitha Thomas, Adam Bates, Aleksandra Bliznina, Alex Makunin, Amit Vishwakumar, Amy Denton, Andy Griffiths, Anna Kovalevskaia, Arif Ma |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |