Genomic data of the Red throated loon (Gavia stellata)

• Main Authors: Zhang, G, Li, B, Li, C, Gilbert, MTP, Jarvis, E, Consortium, The Avian Genome, Wang, J.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: GigaScience Database 2014
• Subjects: Genomic; Arctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5524/101026; http://gigadb.org/dataset/101026

The Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata), also known as the Red-throated Diver, is a migratory aquatic bird that breeds mainly in the Arctic regions and spends winters in the northern coastal waters. The Red-throated loon has a large global population, making it the most widely distributed member of the Gaviidae (Loon or Diver) family.These data have been produced as part of the avian phylogenomic project. DNA from the Gavia stellata was collected in Denmark. We sequenced the genome to a depth of approximately 33X. The assembled scaffolds of high quality sequences total 1.15Gb, with the contig and scaffold N50 values of 16kb and 45kb respectively. We identified 13,454 protein-coding genes with a mean length of 13.2kb.