The Genome Sequence of the Loggerhead Sea Turtle, Linnaeus 1758

Overview

Journal F1000Res

Specialties Biomedical Engineering
Science

Date 2023 Jul 17

PMID 37455852

Authors

Glenn Chang

Samantha Jones

Sreeja Leelakumari

Jahanshah Ashkani

Luka Culibrk

Kieran ONeill

Kane Tse

Dean Cheng

Eric Chuah

Helen McDonald

Heather Kirk

Pawan Pandoh

Sauro Pari

Valeria Angelini

Christopher Kyle

Giorgio Bertorelle

Yongjun Zhao

Andrew Mungall

Richard Moore

Sibelle Vilaca

Steven Jones

Affiliations

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Abstract

We present a genome assembly of (the Loggerhead sea turtle; Chordata, Testudines, Cheloniidae), generated from genomic data from two unrelated females. The genome sequence is 2.13 gigabases in size. The assembly has a busco completion score of 96.1% and N50 of 130.95 Mb. The majority of the assembly is scaffolded into 28 chromosomal representations with a remaining 2% of the assembly being excluded from these.

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