The Magellanic penguin breeds in coastal Argentina, Chile and the Falkland Islands. Nests are built under bushes or in burrows, and they lay eggs in warm places when the temperature remains over 20℃. Magellanic penguins travel in large flocks when hunting for food. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies the Magellanic penguin as near threatened.
We sequenced the genome of an adult Magellanic penguin from Chiloe Island, Chile (provided by Juan Bouzat) to a depth of approximately 171x with short reads from a series of libraries with various insert sizes (250bp-20Kb). The assembled scaffolds of high quality sequences total 1.2Gb, with the contig and scaffold N50 values of 40.48Kb and 12.09Mb respectively. We identified 16795 protein-coding genes.

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doi:10.5524/102173 IsPartOf doi:10.5524/100649

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BioSample: SAMN12384882





Sample IDTaxonomic IDCommon NameGenbank NameScientific NameSample Attributes
AH 637081  Spheniscus magellanicus Description:DNA extracted from the blood of a wild...
Common name:Magellanic
Sample type:Wild
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File NameSample IDData TypeFile FormatSizeRelease Date 
AH 6OtherUNKNOWN0.99 KB2019-09-03
ReadmeTEXT2.32 KB2019-09-03
AH 6Coding sequenceFASTA23.49 MB2019-09-03
AH 6Genome sequenceFASTA356.62 MB2019-09-03
AH 6AnnotationGFF14.28 MB2019-09-03
AH 6Protein sequenceFASTA8.9 MB2019-09-03
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Funding body Awardee Award ID Comments
Carlsbergfondet G Zhang CF CF16-0663
Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) G Zhang 2018YFC1406901 National Key Research and Development Program
Chinese Academy of Sciences G Zhang XDB13000000 Strategic Priority Research Program
Chinese Academy of Sciences G Zhang XDB31020000 Strategic Priority Research Program
Lundbeckfonden G Zhang R190-2014-2827
Villum Fonden G Zhang 25900
European Research Council MTP Gilbert 681396 Extinction Genomics - Consolidator Grant
Shenzhen Municipality G Zhang JCYJ20170817150239127 Science Technology and Innovation Commission
Shenzhen Municipality G Zhang JCYJ20170817150721687 Science Technology and Innovation Commission
Date Action
September 16, 2019 Dataset publish