Chromosome-level Genome Assembly of the Short-faced Mole (Scaptochirus Moschatus)

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Journal Sci Data

Specialty Science

Date 2025 Mar 3

PMID 40032941

Authors

Lei Chen

Zenghao Gao

Chao Xue

Yue Zhao

Di Xu

Xiaohan Ma

Yifan Zhang

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Abstract

The short-faced mole (Scaptochirus moschatus) belonging to the family Talpidae in the order Eulipotyphla is a good model for studying adaptive evolution of mammals because of its morphological and ecological characteristics. However, the lack of genome of short-faced mole has hindered previous studies. In this study, we assembled the genome of the short-faced mole based on Illumina, PacBio HiFi and Hi-C sequencing, and acquired the genome of the short-faced mole with the size of 2.17 Gb. 99.6% of the assembled genome were identified as complete BUSCOs, including 90.7% as complete single-copy BUSCOs and 8.9% as complete duplicated BUSCOs. The assembled genome was anchored to 24 chromosomes with an anchor rate of 94.33%, of which the 24th chromosome (Chr 24) probably contained the X and Y chromosomes. A total of 21,139 coding genes were predicted, and 8.58 exons per gene were predicted.

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