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01.06.2016
Fish products, including farmed salmon, account for 7% of Norway's yearly export behind oil (50%) and natural gas (35%). A recent Nature paper (1) by CIGENE scientists at Ås and their partners signals the next step in using molecular methods to improve salmon aquaculture. Not only is the salmon genome sequenced and assembled, this paper also contributes new findings on the evolution of genomes,
...generally. Determining the sequence of the salmon genome took approximately 10 years (2) and involved 45 authors from 6 different countries, including Norway, USA, Canada, Sweden, Chile and China. Two scientists from Canada plus Sigbjørn Lien and Stig Omholt were key people when the project started. Initially sequencing was done using Sanger technology but eventually most sequencing was accomplished with high-throughput Illumina technology at several different sites. The published sequenc
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