Genomic data from White-flippered penguin ( Eudyptula minor albosignata ).

The White-flippered penguin is a small penguin closely related to the New Zealand little blue penguin. It is occasionally considered a unique species or sometimes a subspecies of the New Zealand little blue penguin, however genetic research indicates that the two taxa are probably incipient. The rea...

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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
FOS Sociology
Climate change
Antarctica
Evolution
Antarctic
New Zealand
Christchurch
Banks Peninsula
Antarc*
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5524/102177
http://gigadb.org/dataset/102177
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Summary:The White-flippered penguin is a small penguin closely related to the New Zealand little blue penguin. It is occasionally considered a unique species or sometimes a subspecies of the New Zealand little blue penguin, however genetic research indicates that the two taxa are probably incipient. The reason it is occasionally considered a separate species or subspecies is because it has white markings on its flippers. Most taxonomists consider it to be a colour morph of the New Zealand little blue penguin. It nests in headlands, caves, rock jumbles and in the sheltered areas at the bases of bays, only on Banks Peninsula and Motunau Island near Christchurch, New Zealand. The white-flippered penguin is a Taonga, or treasured possession in Māori culture. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) considers all Eudyptula penguins as least concern. We sequenced the genome of an adult White-flippered penguin from Christchurch Antarctic Centre, originally from Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, New Zealand South Island (provided by Pauline Howard) to a depth of approximately 100x with short reads from a series of libraries with various insert sizes (250bp-20Kb). The assembled scaffolds of high quality sequences total 1.3Gb, with the contig and scaffold N50 values of 93.53Kb and 20.85Mb respectively. We identified 17424 protein-coding genes.

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