PARTNERS:
Our STURGEoNOMICS project involves four partners, from three COFASP funding countries (France, Germany, Romania):
- Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, IGB, Germany
- Institute National de la Recherche Agronomique, France
- Danube Delta National Institute for Research and Development, Romania
- University of Würzburg, Biocentre, Physiological Chemistry, Germany
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Description of the project
This project comprises four major work packages (WP1-4).
WP 1. Production of high quality genomes in the Beluga and the Atlantic sturgeon
Aims at generating high quality genomes for H. huso and A. oxyrinchus.
WP 2. Genetic sex determination and gonadal transcriptomics in Beluga and Atlantic sturgeon
Aims at characterizing the genetic sex determination in both target sturgeon species, using genomics and gonadal transcriptomics to prepare future molecular biotechnological tools for commercial (female biased breeding, meat, caviar) aquaculture.
WP3. Population genomics in Atlantic sturgeon (A. oxyrinchus) and Beluga (H. huso)
Aims at generating population genomics data as a basis for improvement of aquaculture breeding and re-stocking, specifically elucidating the genomic substructure of native American Atlantic/Baltic sturgeons (A. oxyrinchus) and re-stocking populations (Germany) and of the remaining Beluga (H. huso) stocks from the Danube (Romania/Bulgaria).
WP4. Functional genomics for aquaculture – growth, sex determination and disease resistance
Aims at identifying candidate genes (from whole genome sequencing and
transcriptomics) for important traits, applicable to selective breeding (growth, disease resistance, sex determination) and to derive and validate trait-specific aquaculture strategies in H. huso and A. oxyrinchus in Germany and Romania.
