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Novel Sequence Discovery by Subtractive Genomics
Published on: January 25, 2019
The genome sequence of the Little Owl, Athene noctua (Scopoli, 1769) (Strigiformes: Strigidae)
Elizabeth Blows1, Irene Fabiola Roman Maldonado2,
1The Raptor Foundation, Woodhurst, Cambridgeshire, England, UK.
Abstract:
We present a genome assembly from an individual male Athene noctua (Little Owl; Chordata; Aves; Strigiformes; Strigidae). The assembly contains two haplotypes with total lengths of 1 355.86 megabases and 1 302.38 megabases. Most of haplotype 1 (91.82%) is scaffolded into 41 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the Z sex chromosome. Haplotype 2 was assembled to scaffold level. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled, with a length of 18.17 kilobases. This assembly was generated as part of the Darwin Tree of Life project, which produces reference genomes for eukaryotic species found in Britain and Ireland.
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