The genome sequence of Molossusnigricans (Chiroptera, Molossidae; Miller, 1902)

Nancy B Simmons; Melissa R Ingala; Myrtani Pieri; Thomas L Volkert; Larry N Singh; Philge Philip; Laramie L Lindsey; Ning Zhang; Jonathan L Gray; Brian P O'Toole; Meike Mai; Emma C Teeling; Sonja C Vernes; Bat Biology Foundation; Bat1K Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18724.1

The genome sequence of Molossusnigricans (Chiroptera, Molossidae; Miller, 1902)

Wellcome Open Res. 2023 May 5:8:198. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.18724.1. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Nancy B Simmons¹, Melissa R Ingala^{2

3}, Myrtani Pieri⁴, Thomas L Volkert⁵, Larry N Singh⁵, Philge Philip⁵, Laramie L Lindsey⁵, Ning Zhang⁵, Jonathan L Gray⁵, Brian P O'Toole⁵, Meike Mai⁶, Emma C Teeling^{7

8}, Sonja C Vernes^{6

9}; Bat Biology Foundation; Bat1K Consortium

Affiliations

¹ Department of Mammalogy, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY10024, USA.
² National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA.
³ Department of Biological Sciences, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ 07940, USA.
⁴ Department of Life Sciences, School of Life and Health Sciences, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus.
⁵ Paratus Sciences, New York NY, USA.
⁶ School of Biology, The University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
⁷ School of Biology and Environmental Science, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
⁸ Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, UK.
⁹ Neurogenetics of Vocal Communication Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Molossus nigricans (Chordata; Mammalia; Chiroptera; Molossidae). The genome sequence is 2.41 gigabases in span. The majority of the assembly is scaffolded into 24 chromosomal pseudomolecules, with the X sex chromosome assembled.

Keywords: Bat1K; Molossus nigricans; chromosomal; genome sequence.

Grants and funding

SCV was supported by a Max Planck Research Group awarded by the Max Planck Gesellschaft and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (MR/T021985/1). ECT is a Wellcome collaborator and the Irish Research Council Laureate Award IRCLA/2017/58 and Science Foundation Ireland Future Frontiers 19/FFP/6790. SCV receives financial support for MM's salary from Paratus Sciences Corporation. MRI was supported by a Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Fieldwork by NBS was supported by the Taxonomic Mammalogy Fund of the American Museum of Natural History.