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

Accessions (data generated as part of this study):

BioSample: SAMN12384866





Sample IDTaxonomic IDCommon NameGenbank NameScientific NameSample Attributes
KP FORT 0019234 king penguinAptenodytes patagonicus Description:DNA extracted from the blood of a wild...
Common name:King
Sample type:Wild
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File NameSample IDData TypeFile FormatSizeRelease Date 
KP FORT 001Coding sequenceFASTA21.18 MB2019-09-03
KP FORT 001Genome sequenceFASTA353.41 MB2019-09-03
KP FORT 001AnnotationGFF11.84 MB2019-09-03
KP FORT 001Protein sequenceFASTA7.94 MB2019-09-03
KP FORT 001OtherUNKNOWN0.96 KB2019-09-03
ReadmeTEXT2.42 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 JCYJ20170817150239127 Science Technology and Innovation Commission
Shenzhen Municipality G Zhang JCYJ20170817150721687 Science Technology and Innovation Commission
Date Action
September 17, 2019 Dataset publish