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The genome sequence of the Eurasian Curlew, Numenius arquata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Grace Walsh1, Barry O' Donoghue2, Jacob Höglund3
1UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science, Agriculture and Food Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland.
Abstract:
We present a genome assembly from a female specimen of Numenius arquata (Eurasian Curlew; Chordata; Aves; Charadriiformes; Scolopacidae). The assembly contains two haplotypes with total lengths of 1,348.86 megabases and 1,198.36 megabases. Most of haplotype 1 (89.99%) is scaffolded into 41 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the W and Z sex chromosomes. Haplotype 2 was assembled to scaffold level. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled, with a length of 17.13 kilobases. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl identified 15,412 protein-coding genes.
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