The genome of the ocean sunfish (Mola mola),the world's largest bony fish, has been sequenced for the first time by researchers from China National Genebank at BGI-Shenzhen and A*STAR, or Singapore. The researchers,who include Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner, publish their results in the open access journal GigaScience. The ocean sunfish genome revealed several altered genes that may clarify the fast growth rate and large size of the fish as well as its strange endoskeleton.
Source: phys.org