Genomic data from King penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus).
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 King penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus). GigaScience Database. http://dx.doi.org/10.5524/102182
The King penguin is the second largest species of penguin. They have a circumpolar range, breeding on the subantarctic islands at the northern reaches of Antarctica, South Georgia, and other temperate islands. They were heavily hunted for oil on Macquarie Island. King penguins appear to have suffered a major population declines, and 70% are expected to disappear in the next eighty years, however they are still considered as Least Concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
We sequenced the genome of an adult King penguin from Fortuna Bay, South Georgia (provided by Tom Hart) to a depth of approximately 120x with short reads from a series of libraries with various insert sizes (250bp-20Kb). The assembled scaffolds of high quality sequences total 1.24Gb, with the contig and scaffold N50 values of 114.03Kb and 2.77Mb respectively. We identified 15195 protein-coding genes.
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doi:10.5524/102182 IsPartOf doi:10.5524/100649
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SAMN12384866
Sample ID | Taxonomic ID | Common Name | Genbank Name | Scientific Name | Sample Attributes |
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KP FORT 001 | 9234 | king penguin | Aptenodytes patagonicus | Description:DNA extracted from the blood of a wild... Common name:King Sample type:Wild ... + |