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. 2022 Nov 2;13:994471. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2022.994471

TABLE 1.

Major aquaculture species of finfish, crustacean, and molluscs in the world and their whole genome sequence resources.

Species groups Species involved % Of world production References of annotated genomes
Finfish
 Carps (Cypriniformes) Grass carp, silver carp, common carp, catla, bighead carp, goldfish, rohu carp, Wuchang bream, black carp, and other cyprinids 51.1% Xu et al. (2014); Chen et al. (2019); Liu H. et al. (2021)
 Tilapias Nile tilapia, blue tilapia, and other tilapia species 10.2% Tao et al. (2021); Conte et al. (2017)
 Catfishes Striped catfish, Clarias spp., yellow catfish, channel catfish 7.5% Liu P. et al. (2016)
Gong et al. (2018)
Gao et al. (2021)
 Salmonids Atlantic salmon, rainbow trout, pink salmon, chum salmon, coho salmon, sockeye salmon, Chinook salmon 6.1% Lien et al. (2016); Berthelot et al. (2014)
 Milkfish Milkfish 2.4%
 All other finfishes Flatfishes such as Atlantic halibut, Pacific halibut, Japanese flounder, half-tongue smooth; Atlantic cod 16.4% Chen et al. (2014); Shao et al. (2017); Star et al. (2011)
Crustaceans
 Shrimps Penaeus vannamei, P. monodon, P. japonicus, P. chinensis 60.9 Zhang et al. (2019), Uengwetwanit et al. (2021); Wang et al. (2022)
 Red swamp crayfish Procambarus clarkii 18.2 Xu et al. (2021)
 Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis 8.1
 Oriental river prawn Macrobrachium nipponense and Macrobrachium rosenbergii 5.0 Jin et al. (2021)
Molluscs
 Oysters Crassostrea gigas , C. virginica 33.2 Zhang et al. (2012); Gómez-Chiarri et al. (2015)
 Japanese carpet shell Ruditapes philippinarum 23.6
 Scallops Mizuhopecten yessoensis and various species in Pectinidae 11.0 Wang et al. (2017a)
 Sea mussels Various species in Mytilidae 6.9 Jin et al. (2017)
 Constricted tagelus Sinonovacula constricta 4.9 Ran et al. (2019)
 Blood cockle Anadara granosa 2.5
 Chilean mussel Mytilus chilensis 2.1

Source: Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (https://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/ca9229en/).

Bold species are those whose genome sequences have been annotated at NCBI.