Chromosomal-level reference genome of a wild North American mallard (Anas platyrhynchos).

ABSTRACT: The mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) is one of the most common, economically, and socially important birds around the world. Mallards were not only an important food source for early humans but eventually becoming intimately linked with people as they were domesticated over the last 2,000 years. To date, mallard genomes are largely reconstructed from samples of domestic or unknown genetic heritage. Here, we report the first high-quality genome assembly and annotation of a genetically vetted wild mallard from North America (NAwild_v1.0). The genome was assembled using a combination of shotgun libraries, proximity ligation Chicago, and Dovetail Hi-C libraries. The final assembly is ∼1.04 Gb in size, with 98.3% of the sequence located in 30 full or nearly full chromosome-level scaffolds, and with

SUBMITTER: Lavretsky P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10542157 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature