Genomic data from Little blue penguin ( Eudyptula minor minor ).

The New Zealand little blue penguin (also known as fairy penguin, blue penguin, little penguin and kororā in Māori) is one of the smallest penguins. It is found on the coastlines of New Zealand and the Chatham Islands. They have a slate-blue plumage. Recent genetic, morphological and behavioral rese...

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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
New Zealand
Antarc*
Antarctica
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5524/102178
http://gigadb.org/dataset/102178
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Summary:The New Zealand little blue penguin (also known as fairy penguin, blue penguin, little penguin and kororā in Māori) is one of the smallest penguins. It is found on the coastlines of New Zealand and the Chatham Islands. They have a slate-blue plumage. Recent genetic, morphological and behavioral research has demonstrated that the New Zealand little blue penguin is a seperate species to the Australian fairy penguin, however this still remains controversial. Populations have recently declined, and they are considered as Least Concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), however this assessment still classifies the Australian and New Zealand species as conspecific. The New Zealand little penguin is a Taonga, or treasured possession in Māori culture. We sequenced the genome of an adult Little blue penguin from National Aquarium of New Zealand, New Zealand North Island (provided by Helen Taylor) 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 1.3Gb, with the contig and scaffold N50 values of 86.12Kb and 20.15Mb respectively. We identified 17802 protein-coding genes.

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