The Galápagos penguin is endemic to the Galápagos Islands, and is the only penguin with breeding colonies north of the equator. The cool waters of the Humboldt and Cromwell Currents allow the species to survive in the tropics, and they have evolved unique adaptations to survive in a tropical environment. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies them as endangered.
We sequenced the genome of an adult Galápagos penguin from Galápagos Islands (provided by Patricia Parker) to a depth of approximately 87x with short reads from a series of libraries with various insert sizes (250bp-20Kb). The assembled scaffolds of high quality sequences total 1.35Gb, with the contig and scaffold N50 values of 70.85Kb and 0.36Mb respectively. We identified 16390 protein-coding genes.

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doi:10.5524/102175 IsPartOf doi:10.5524/100649

Accessions (data generated as part of this study):

BioSample: SAMN12384884





Sample IDTaxonomic IDCommon NameGenbank NameScientific NameSample Attributes
GAPE 212156760  Spheniscus mendiculus Description:DNA extracted from the blood of a wild...
Common name:Galápagos
Sample type:Wild
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File NameSample IDData TypeFile FormatSizeRelease Date 
GAPE 212OtherUNKNOWN1.23 KB2019-09-03
ReadmeTEXT2.36 KB2019-09-03
GAPE 212Coding sequenceFASTA21.79 MB2019-09-03
GAPE 212Genome sequenceFASTA374.74 MB2019-09-03
GAPE 212AnnotationGFF13.06 MB2019-09-03
GAPE 212Protein sequenceFASTA8.29 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