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The Genome of the Beluga Whale (Delphinapterus leucas) Jones, Steven J. M.; Taylor, Gregory A.; Chan, Simon; Warren, René L.; Hammond, S. Austin; Bilobram, Steven; Mordecai, Gideon; Suttle, Curtis A.; Miller, Kristina M.; Schulze, Angela; et al.

Abstract

The beluga whale is a cetacean that inhabits arctic and subarctic regions, and is the only living member of the genus Delphinapterus. The genome of the beluga whale was determined using DNA sequencing approaches that employed both microfluidic partitioning library and non-partitioned library construction. The former allowed for the construction of a highly contiguous assembly with a scaffold N50 length of over 19 Mbp and total reconstruction of 2.32 Gbp. To aid our understanding of the functional elements, transcriptome data was also derived from brain, duodenum, heart, lung, spleen, and liver tissue. Assembled sequence and all of the underlying sequence data are available at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) under the Bioproject accession number PRJNA360851A.

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Title
The Genome of the Beluga Whale (Delphinapterus leucas)
Creator
Jones, Steven J. M.; Taylor, Gregory A.; Chan, Simon; Warren, René L.; Hammond, S. Austin; Bilobram, Steven; Mordecai, Gideon; Suttle, Curtis A.; Miller, Kristina M.; Schulze, Angela; Chan, Amy M.; Jones, Samantha J.; Tse, Kane; Li, Irene; Cheung, Dorothy; Mungall, Karen L.; Choo, Caleb; Ally, Adrian; Dhalla, Noreen; Tam, Angela K. Y.; Troussard, Armelle; Kirk, Heather; Pandoh, Pawan; Paulino, Daniel; Coope, Robin J. N.; Mungall, Andrew J.; Moore, Richard; Zhao, Yongjun; Birol, Inanc; Ma, Yussanne; Marra, Marco, 1966-; Haulena, Martin
Publisher
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Date Issued
2017-12-11
Description
The beluga whale is a cetacean that inhabits arctic and subarctic regions, and is the only living member of the genus Delphinapterus. The genome of the beluga whale was determined using DNA sequencing approaches that employed both microfluidic partitioning library and non-partitioned library construction. The former allowed for the construction of a highly contiguous assembly with a scaffold N50 length of over 19 Mbp and total reconstruction of 2.32 Gbp. To aid our understanding of the functional elements, transcriptome data was also derived from brain, duodenum, heart, lung, spleen, and liver tissue. Assembled sequence and all of the underlying sequence data are available at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) under the Bioproject accession number PRJNA360851A.
Subject
Genome; Genome assembly; Beluga whale; Delphinapterus leucas; Cetacea
Genre
Article
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2019-07-04
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
CC BY 4.0
DOI
10.14288/1.0379739
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/70896
Affiliation
Medicine, Faculty of; Science, Faculty of; Non UBC; Botany, Department of; Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, Department of; Medical Genetics, Department of; Microbiology and Immunology, Department of; Oceans and Fisheries, Institute for the
Citation
Genes 8 (12): 378 (2017)
Publisher DOI
10.3390/genes8120378
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Rights URI
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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