The African penguin (also known as jackass penguin and black-footed penguin) is endemic to southern African coasts. The pink gland above the eyes helps to adjust to changing temperatures: when it's hotter, more blood is sent to these glands to be cooled by the surrounding air. It is a charismatic species and is popular with tourists. The African penguin has declined rapidly and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies it as endangered.
We sequenced the genome of an adult African penguin from Luderitz, Namibia (provided by Kim Labuschagne) to a depth of approximately 115x with short reads from a series of libraries with various insert sizes (250bp-20Kb). The assembled scaffolds of high quality sequences total 1.23Gb, with the contig and scaffold N50 values of 99.03Kb and 14.67Mb respectively. We identified 16134 protein-coding genes.

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doi:10.5524/102174 IsPartOf doi:10.5524/100649

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BioSample: SAMN12384881





Sample IDTaxonomic IDCommon NameGenbank NameScientific NameSample Attributes
AP 17392683 jackass penguinSpheniscus demersus Description:DNA extracted from the blood of a wild...
Common name:African
Sample type:Wild
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File NameSample IDData TypeFile FormatSizeRelease Date 
AP 173OtherUNKNOWN1.01 KB2019-09-03
ReadmeTEXT2.37 KB2019-09-03
AP 173Coding sequenceFASTA21.87 MB2019-09-03
AP 173Genome sequenceFASTA353.78 MB2019-09-03
AP 173AnnotationGFF12.27 MB2019-09-03
AP 173Protein sequenceFASTA8.23 MB2019-09-03
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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