Other vertebrates and invertebrates

Non-mammalian animals can provide great insight into the principles of development and evolution, which in turn teaches us about human biology and disease. Such organisms include: classical genetic models such as fruitflies (Drosophila), fish used as models for the study of morphology and speciation (stickleback), pufferfish used as models of compact genomes, sea squirts used to assess the content of small chordate genomes and sea hare used as models for learning and memory in neurobiology (Aplysia).

The Broad Institute is involved in sequencing many such organisms, as listed below.

Current status:

Vertebrate genomes
Spotted green pufferfish (Tetraodon nigroviridis)
6x coverage Complete 2002
Draft assembly tetNig1.0, released 2003
Green Anole Lizard (Anolis carolinensis)
7x coverage Complete February 2007
Draft assembly AnoCar1.0, March 2007
Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)
9.0x coverage complete June 2006
Draft assembly gasAcu1, July 2006
Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)
7x coverage In Progress
Coelocanth (Indonesia) (Latimeria menadoensis)
Under consideration To Be Done
Coelocanth (South African) (Latimeria chalumnae)
Under consideration To Be Done
Invertebrate genomes
Sea squirt (Ciona savignyi)
8x coverage Complete 2002
Draft assembly ci1.0, released 2003
Fruit fly (Drosophila persimilis)
3x coverage Complete 2005
Draft Assembly Released August 2005
Fruit fly (Drosophila sechelia)
3x coverage Complete 2005
Draft Assembly Released June 2005
Sea hare (Aplysia californica)
6x coverage Complete 2009