The genome sequence of the Eurasian red squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris Linnaeus 1758

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

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15679.1

The genome sequence of the Eurasian red squirrel, Sciurus vulgaris Linnaeus 1758

Wellcome Open Res. 2020 Feb 3:5:18. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15679.1. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Daniel Mead¹, Kathryn Fingland², Rachel Cripps³, Roberto Portela Miguez⁴, Michelle Smith¹, Craig Corton¹, Karen Oliver¹, Jason Skelton¹, Emma Betteridge¹, Jale Dolucan⁵, Olga Dudchenko⁵, Arina D Omer⁵, David Weisz⁵, Erez Lieberman Aiden⁵, Olivier Fedrigo⁶, Jacquelyn Mountcastle⁶, Erich Jarvis^{6

7}, Shane A McCarthy^{1

8}, Ying Sims¹, James Torrance¹, Alan Tracey¹, Kerstin Howe¹, Richard Challis¹, Richard Durbin^{1

8}, Mark Blaxter¹

Affiliations

¹ Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK.
² School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, NG25 0QF, UK.
³ The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside, Preston, PR5 6BY, UK.
⁴ Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK.
⁵ Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, 77030, USA.
⁶ Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, 10065, USA.
⁷ Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, MD, 20815, USA.
⁸ Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EH, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Sciurus vulgaris (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.

Keywords: Sciurus vulgaris; chromosomal; genome sequence; red squirrel.

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