Genomic data from Galápagos penguin ( Spheniscus mendiculus ).

The Galápagos penguin is endemic to the Galápagos Islands, and is the only penguin with breeding colonies north of the equator. The cool waters of the Humboldt and Cromwell Currents allow the species to survive in the tropics, and they have evolved unique adaptations to survive in a tropical environ...

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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
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5524/102175
http://gigadb.org/dataset/102175
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Summary:The Galápagos penguin is endemic to the Galápagos Islands, and is the only penguin with breeding colonies north of the equator. The cool waters of the Humboldt and Cromwell Currents allow the species to survive in the tropics, and they have evolved unique adaptations to survive in a tropical environment. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies them as endangered. We sequenced the genome of an adult Galápagos penguin from Galápagos Islands (provided by Patricia Parker) to a depth of approximately 87x with short reads from a series of libraries with various insert sizes (250bp-20Kb). The assembled scaffolds of high quality sequences total 1.35Gb, with the contig and scaffold N50 values of 70.85Kb and 0.36Mb respectively. We identified 16390 protein-coding genes.

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