Genomic data from Western rockhopper penguin ( Eudyptes chrysocome ).

• 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; Pacific; Indian; Dee; Antarc*; Antarctica; Rockhopper penguin
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5524/102170; http://gigadb.org/dataset/102170

The Western rockhopper penguin (also known as the Southern rockhopper penguin or American Southern rockhopper penguin) is a small crested penguin. It is closely related to the Eastern rockhopper penguin, and there is still some debate about whether both are considered incipient species, sub-species or distinct species. Recent genetic work suggests they are probably separate species. The Western rockhopper penguin breeds on subantarctic islands of the western Pacific and Indian Oceans, as well as around the southern coasts of South America. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies the Southern rockhopper penguin group (including both the Western and the Eastern rockhopper penguin) as vulnerable. We sequenced the genome of an adult Western rockhopper penguin from Falkland Islands/Malvinas (provided by Dee Boersma) to a depth of approximately 162x with short reads from a series of libraries with various insert sizes (250bp-20Kb). The assembled scaffolds of high quality sequences total 1.26Gb, with the contig and scaffold N50 values of 64.46Kb and 1.86Mb respectively. We identified 16280 protein-coding genes.