The genome sequence of the eastern grey squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis Gmelin, 1788

Dan Mead; Kathryn Fingland; Rachel Cripps; Roberto Portela Miguez; Michelle Smith; Craig Corton; Karen Oliver; Jason Skelton; Emma Betteridge; Jale Doulcan; Michael A Quail; Shane A McCarthy; Kerstin Howe; Ying Sims; James Torrance; Alan Tracey; Richard Challis; Richard Durbin; Mark Blaxter

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15721.1

The genome sequence of the eastern grey squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis Gmelin, 1788

Wellcome Open Res. 2020 Feb 13:5:27. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15721.1. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Dan Mead¹, Kathryn Fingland², Rachel Cripps³, Roberto Portela Miguez⁴, Michelle Smith¹, Craig Corton¹, Karen Oliver¹, Jason Skelton¹, Emma Betteridge¹, Jale Doulcan¹, Michael A Quail¹, Shane A McCarthy¹, Kerstin Howe¹, Ying Sims¹, James Torrance¹, Alan Tracey¹, Richard Challis¹, Richard Durbin¹, Mark Blaxter¹

Affiliations

¹ Tree of Life, Wellcome Sanger Institute,Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK.
² Nottingham Trent University, School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences, Nottingham, NG25 0QF, UK.
³ Red Squirrel Officer, The Wildlife Trust for Lancashire, Manchester and North Merseyside, The Barn, Berkeley Drive, Bamber Bridge, Preston, PR5 6BY, UK.
⁴ Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Sciurus carolinensis (the eastern grey squirrel; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Eutheria; Rodentia; Sciuridae). The genome sequence is 2.82 gigabases in span. The majority of the assembly (92.3%) is scaffolded into 21 chromosomal-level scaffolds, with both X and Y sex chromosomes assembled.

Keywords: Sciurus carolinensis; chromosomal; genome sequence; grey squirrel.

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