The Eastern rockhopper penguin is a small crested penguin. It is closely related to the Western rockhopper penguin, however there is still some debate about whether both are considered incipient species, sub-species or distinct species. Recent genetic work suggests they are probably separate species. The Eastern rockhopper penguin breeds widely on subantarctic islands from New Zealand Campbell/Auckland/Antipodes Islands to the Prince Edward Islands group. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies the Southern rockhopper penguin group (including both the Eastern and the Western rockhopper penguin) as vulnerable.
We sequenced the genome of an adult Eastern rockhopper penguin from Possession Island, Crozet Islands (provided by Yves Cherel) to a depth of approximately 163x with short reads from a series of libraries with various insert sizes (250bp-20Kb). The assembled scaffolds of high quality sequences total 1.25Gb, with the contig and scaffold N50 values of 72.54Kb and 6.13Mb respectively. We identified 15963 protein-coding genes.

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doi:10.5524/102169 IsPartOf doi:10.5524/100649

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BioSample: SAMN12384873





Sample IDTaxonomic IDCommon NameGenbank NameScientific NameSample Attributes
GS 121419345  Eudyptes filholi Description:DNA extracted from the blood of a wild...
Common name:Eastern rockhopper
Sample type:Wild
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File NameSample IDData TypeFile FormatSizeRelease Date 
GS 12OtherUNKNOWN1.01 KB2019-09-03
GS 12Coding sequenceFASTA22.76 MB2019-09-03
GS 12Genome sequenceFASTA344.58 MB2019-09-03
GS 12AnnotationGFF13.89 MB2019-09-03
GS 12Protein sequenceFASTA8.61 MB2019-09-03
ReadmeTEXT2.57 KB2019-09-03
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Funding body Awardee Award ID Comments
Carlsbergfondet G Zhang CF CF16-0663
Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) G Zhang 2018YFC1406901 National Key Research and Development Program
Chinese Academy of Sciences G Zhang XDB13000000 Strategic Priority Research Program
Chinese Academy of Sciences G Zhang XDB31020000 Strategic Priority Research Program
Lundbeckfonden G Zhang R190-2014-2827
Villum Fonden G Zhang 25900
European Research Council MTP Gilbert 681396 Extinction Genomics - Consolidator Grant
Shenzhen Municipality G Zhang JCYJ20170817150721687 Science Technology and Innovation Commission
Shenzhen Municipality G Zhang JCYJ20170817150239127 Science Technology and Innovation Commission
Date Action
September 16, 2019 Dataset publish