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Published on: January 25, 2019
A Reference Genome Assembly of the Bobcat, Lynx rufus
Meixi Lin1, Merly Escalona2, Ruta Sahasrabudhe3
1Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Abstract:
The bobcat (Lynx rufus) is a medium-sized carnivore well adapted to various environments and an indicator species for landscape connectivity. It is one of the 4 species within the extant Lynx genus in the family Felidae. Because of its broad geographic distribution and central role in food webs, the bobcat is important for conservation. Here we present a high-quality de novo genome assembly of a male bobcat located in Mendocino County, CA, as part of the California Conservation Genomics Project (CCGP). The assembly was generated using the standard CCGP pipeline from a combination of Omni-C and HiFi technologies. The primary assembly comprises 76 scaffolds spanning 2.4 Gb, represented by a scaffold N50 of 142 Mb, a contig N50 of 66.2 Mb, and a BUSCO completeness score of 95.90%. The bobcat genome will be an important resource for the effective management and conservation of this species and comparative genomics exploration.
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