The White-flippered penguin is a small penguin closely related to the New Zealand little blue penguin. It is occasionally considered a unique species or sometimes a subspecies of the New Zealand little blue penguin, however genetic research indicates that the two taxa are probably incipient. The reason it is occasionally considered a separate species or subspecies is because it has white markings on its flippers. Most taxonomists consider it to be a colour morph of the New Zealand little blue penguin. It nests in headlands, caves, rock jumbles and in the sheltered areas at the bases of bays, only on Banks Peninsula and Motunau Island near Christchurch, New Zealand. The white-flippered penguin is a Taonga, or treasured possession in Māori culture. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) considers all Eudyptula penguins as least concern.
We sequenced the genome of an adult White-flippered penguin from Christchurch Antarctic Centre, originally from Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, New Zealand South Island (provided by Pauline Howard) to a depth of approximately 100x with short reads from a series of libraries with various insert sizes (250bp-20Kb). The assembled scaffolds of high quality sequences total 1.3Gb, with the contig and scaffold N50 values of 93.53Kb and 20.85Mb respectively. We identified 17424 protein-coding genes.

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doi:10.5524/102177 IsPartOf doi:10.5524/100649

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BioSample: SAMN12384880





Sample IDTaxonomic IDCommon NameGenbank NameScientific NameSample Attributes
Fred345258  Eudyptula minor albosignata Description:DNA extracted from the blood of a capt...
Common name:White-flippered
Sample type:Captive
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File NameSample IDData TypeFile FormatSizeRelease Date 
FredOtherUNKNOWN1.04 KB2019-09-03
FredCoding sequenceFASTA23.53 MB2019-09-03
FredGenome sequenceFASTA380.48 MB2019-09-03
FredAnnotationGFF13.36 MB2019-09-03
FredProtein sequenceFASTA8.88 MB2019-09-03
ReadmeTEXT2.81 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 17, 2019 Dataset publish