Genomic data from Royal penguin ( Eudyptes chrysolophus schlegeli ).

The Royal penguin is a crested penguin with golden-yellow crests found primarily on Macquarie Island, however a few individuals have also been detected in the Prince Edward Island group and other subantarctic islands. The Royal penguin is often considered a separate species from the Macaroni penguin...

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Main Authors: Alan, D Tennyson J, Andrew, Reeve Hart, McKinlay Bruce, Charles-André, Bost, Chengran, Zhou, Daniel, Ksepka T, Thompson R David, David, Houston M, De, Zhang Xing, Emily, Kay, Miller Gary, George, Pacheco, Guojie, Zhang, Hailin, Pan, Helen, Taylor, Bouzat L Juan, Juan, Masello F, Kathryn, Johnson, Kim, Labuschagne, Lara, Shepherd D, Lisa, Nupen J, Argilla S Lisa, Mads, Bertelsen F, Ellegaard R Martin, Melanie, Young J, Miaoquan, Fang, Mikkel-Holger, Sinding S, M.Thomas, Gilbert P, Boersma Dee P, Pablo, García Borboroglu, Patricia, Parker, Pauline, Howard, Dann Peter, Peter, Ryan G, Petra, Quillfeldt, Phillips A Richard, Grosser Stefanie, Steven, Fiddaman R, Theresa, Cole, Thomas, Mattern, Stracke Thomas, Tom, Hart, Ursula, Ellenberg, Xupeng, Bi, Yves, Cherel, Zhengtao, Yang
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: GigaScience Database 2019
Subjects:
Genomic
genomics
sphenisciformes
comparative evolution
phylogenetics
speciation
biogeography
demography
climate change
antarctica
evolution
Antarc*
Antarctica
Eudyptes chrysolophus
Macaroni penguin
Macquarie Island
Prince Edward Island
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5524/102164
http://gigadb.org/dataset/102164
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Summary:The Royal penguin is a crested penguin with golden-yellow crests found primarily on Macquarie Island, however a few individuals have also been detected in the Prince Edward Island group and other subantarctic islands. The Royal penguin is often considered a separate species from the Macaroni penguin, given its unique white facial plumage and relatively restricted breeding range. Several recent genetic studies, however, have demonstrated that the Royal penguin and Macaroni penguin are probably incipient. Historically, Royal penguins were hunted for their oil (between 1870 - 1919). The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies the Royal penguin as near threatened. We sequenced the genome of an adult Royal penguin from Green Gorge, Macquarie Island, Australia (provided by Gary Miller) to a depth of approximately 320x with short reads from a series of libraries with various insert sizes (250bp-20Kb). The assembled scaffolds of high quality sequences total 1.18Gb, with the contig and scaffold N50 values of 23.62Kb and 1.79Mb respectively. We identified 17191 protein-coding genes.

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