Draft sequencing and assembly of the genome of the world's largest fish, the whale shark: Rhincodon...
Draft sequencing and assembly of the genome of the world's largest fish, the whale shark: Rhincodon typus Smith 1828
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England: BioMed Central Ltd
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The whale shark (Rhincodon typus) has by far the largest body size of any elasmobranch (shark or ray) species. Therefore, it is also the largest extant species of the paraphyletic assemblage commonly referred to as fishes. As both a phenotypic extreme and a member of the group Chondrichthyes - the sister group to the remaining gnathostomes, which i...
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Draft sequencing and assembly of the genome of the world's largest fish, the whale shark: Rhincodon typus Smith 1828
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TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_da667ce7e79745abaa25086282fc11bf
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_da667ce7e79745abaa25086282fc11bf
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1471-2164
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1471-2164
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10.1186/s12864-017-3926-9
