Progress and perspective of the genome research in aquatic organisms

In this paper, the development and application of related technologies in aquatic genome research are reviewed. Taking the appearance of the next-generation sequencing (NGS) technology as a demarcation point, we firstly looked back to the researches of genetics and molecular biology of aquatic organisms in the early stages, and the basic researches for the whole-genome sequencing. And then we emphatically introduced the development of the NGS technology application for whole-genome sequencing and economic traits analysis. At last, the development trend of aquatic organisms whole-genome researches is prospected. The genetic mechanism of economic traits of aquatic organisms is highly complex, thus there are still a lot of difficulties in explaining the genetic mechanism at the whole-genome level. However, it is a basic law that trait is determined by genes, so the exploration will still be fascinating.