The Genome Sequence of the Eurasian Red Squirrel, Linnaeus 1758

Overview

Journal Wellcome Open Res

Specialty Biomedical Engineering

Date 2020 Jun 27

PMID 32587897

Citations 3

Authors

Daniel Mead

Kathryn Fingland

Rachel Cripps

Roberto Portela Miguez

Michelle Smith

Craig Corton

Karen Oliver

Jason Skelton

Emma Betteridge

Jale Dolucan

Olga Dudchenko

Arina D Omer

David Weisz

Erez Lieberman Aiden

Olivier Fedrigo

Jacquelyn Mountcastle

Erich Jarvis

Shane A McCarthy

Ying Sims

James Torrance

Alan Tracey

Kerstin Howe

Richard Challis

Richard Durbin

Mark Blaxter

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Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male (the Eurasian red squirrel; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Eutheria; Rodentia; Sciuridae). The genome sequence is 2.88 gigabases in span. The majority of the assembly is scaffolded into 21 chromosomal-level scaffolds, with both X and Y sex chromosomes assembled.

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