A Chromosome-Level Genome Assembly of the Reef Stonefish (Synanceia verrucosa) Provides Novel Insights into Stonustoxin (sntx) Genes.

"data availability all data including the genome assembly and the raw reads generated by the present study are available at ncbi with accession number prjna930159. data availability all data including the genome assembly and the raw reads generated by the present study are available at ncbi with accession number prjna930159"

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"Special thanks go to Dong Yang, an associate researcher of Hainan Academy of Ocean and Fisheries Sciences, for collection of the reef stonefish and performance of species identification. We also thank G10K and Vertebrate Genomes Project for providing some of the fish genome assemblies used in this study, Wellcome Sanger Institute for sequencing them, and Ralf Britz and Byrappa Venkatesh as provider of the samples. This work was supported by Hainan Provincial Key Point Research and Invention Program (no. ZDYF2022SHFZ309), National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 82060686), Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation (no. 820RC636), Special scientific research project of Hainan academician innovation platform (no. YSPTZX202132), National Key Research and Development Program of China (no. 2022YFE0139700), and Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province for Fishes Conservation and Utilization in the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River, Neijiang Normal University (no. NJTCSC07)."