Genomic Resources for the North American Water Vole (Microtus richardsoni) and the Montane Vole (Microtus montanus).

ABSTRACT: Voles of the genus Microtus are important research organisms, yet genomic resources are lacking. Such resources would benefit future studies of immunology, phylogeography, cryptic diversity, and more. We sequenced and assembled nuclear genomes from two subspecies of water vole (Microtus richardsoni) and from the montane vole (Microtus montanus). The water vole genomes were sequenced with Illumina and 10× Chromium plus Illumina sequencing, resulting in assemblies with ∼1600,000 and ∼30,000 scaffolds, respectively. The montane vole was also assembled into ∼13,000 scaffolds using Illumina sequencing. Mitochondrial genome assemblies were also performed for both species. Structural and functional annotation for the best water vole nuclear genome resulted in ∼24,500 annotate

SUBMITTER: Duckett DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9631978 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature