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to be made publicly available. It remains among the smallest known vertebrate genomes; its number of base pairs is ~6% and the number of previously known protein-coding genes ~13% that of the human genome, although the number of
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genes that control appetite. The result has increased appetite and weight gain, growing on average 1.9 times faster than normal torafugu. It is sold commercially as food.
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Kai, Wataru; Kikuchi, Kiyoshi; Tohari, Sumanty; Chew, Ah Keng; Tay, Alice; Fujiwara, Atushi; Hosoya, Sho; Suetake, Hiroaki; Naruse, Kiyoshi (1 January 2011).
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and are highly toxic. The toxin is highly concentrated in liver and ovaries, slightly present in the intestines and flesh, and absent from skin and testes.
641:"Integration of the Genetic Map and Genome Assembly of Fugu Facilitates Insights into Distinct Features of Genome Evolution in Teleosts and Mammals"
389:(22) is comparable to that of humans (23). This makes it particularly useful for comparative studies. Current estimates show a total of 392,376,244
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that has been fully sequenced because of its use as a model species and is in widespread use as a reference in genomics.
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610:"Fugu Genome Project: IMCB, A*STAR, Singapore"
532:"ITIS Standard Report Page: Takifugu rubripes"
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490:: e.T193612A2247747.
478:"Japanese Pufferfish"
324:comes from the Latin
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332:meaning ruddy foot.
231:Sphaeroides rubripes
751:Fugu Genome Project
262:Japanese pufferfish
42:Conservation status
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456:References
391:base pairs
350:Yellow Sea
282:pufferfish
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399:RNA genes
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157:Species:
95:Kingdom:
89:Eukaryota
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280:), is a
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