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Manipulation of Gene Function in Mexican Cavefish
Published on: April 22, 2019
The genome sequence of Bocage's wall lizard, Podarcis bocagei (Lopez-Seoane, 1885)
Nathalie Feiner1,2, Tobias Uller2, Miguel A Carretero3
1Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany.
Abstract:
We present a genome assembly from a female specimen of Podarcis bocagei (Bocage's wall lizard; Chordata; Lepidosauria; Squamata; Lacertidae). The assembly contains two haplotypes with total lengths of 1,615.19 megabases and 1,473.58 megabases. Most of the haplotype 1 assembly (97.72%) is scaffolded into 20 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the W and Z sex chromosomes. Most of haplotype 2 (97.4%) is scaffolded into 18 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled, with a length of 17.4 kilobases.
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