The rainbow trout genome, an important landmark for aquaculture and genome evolution
Abstract
Rainbow trout is a native species from the Northwest cost of North America and a member of the salmonid family. It is a species of major importance for aquaculture, wild stock fisheries and recreational sport fisheries. Beside its economical importance, rainbow trout is also extensively used as a model species in many biological disciplines. From an evolutionary genomic point of view, the rainbow trout genome is extremely interesting due to a whole genome duplication event, which occurred 88–96 Mya in the salmonid lineage. With the advent of next generation sequencing technologies, a large number of genomic tools are now available in that species including a whole genome sequence. This chapter provides a synthetic review of the current knowledge on rainbow trout genomics and what biological information has been obtained following the analysis of its genome.