Genomic data from White-flippered penguin (Eudyptula minor albosignata).
Dataset type: Genomic
Data released on September 17, 2019
Pan H; Cole T; Couto A; Bi X; Machado AM; Brejova B; Fang M; Albertin CB; Zhou C; Silva F; Yang Z; Gardner P; Ksepka DT; Baril T; Hart T; Bouzat JL; Hayward A; Argilla LS; Campos A; Bertelsen MF; Ribeiro AM; Barrio-Hernandez I; Boersma PD; Bost C; Hoving H; Cherel Y; Tafur-Jimenez R; Chu C; Dann P; Fiddaman SR; Frazão B; Howard P; Petersen B; Labuschagne K; Penaloza F; Mattern T; Musacchia F; Alexander Jr. GC; Miller G; Osório H; Parker P; Phillips RA; Winkelmann I; Quillfeldt P; Simakov O; Rasmussen S; Ryan PG; Rahman MZ; Taylor H; Pisani D; Thompson DR; Jarvis ED; Young MJ; Ellegaard MR; Zhang G; Gilbert MTP; Vinther J; Sinding MS; Strugnell JM; C. Castro LF; Pacheco G; Fedrigo O; Shepherd LD; D Tennyson AJ; Patricio M; Grosser S; Li Q; Kay E; Rocha S; Antunes A; Nupen LJ; Ellenberg U; Wu Y; Houston DM; Ma B; Reeve AH; Sanges R; Johnson K; Vinar T; Blagoev B; Masello JF; Sicheritz-Ponten T; Stracke T; McKinlay B; Nielsen R; García Borboroglu P; Gilbert MTP; Zhang DX; Zhang G (2019): Genomic data from White-flippered penguin (Eudyptula minor albosignata). GigaScience Database. http://dx.doi.org/10.5524/102177
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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SAMN12384880
Sample ID | Taxonomic ID | Common Name | Genbank Name | Scientific Name | Sample Attributes |
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Fred | 345258 | Eudyptula minor albosignata | Description:DNA extracted from the blood of a capt... Common name:White-flippered Sample type:Captive ... + |