Open AccessAn Annotated Draft Genome for the Andean Bear,Tremarctos ornatus
Author(s) -
Nedda F. Saremi,
Jonas Oppenheimer,
Christopher Vollmers,
Brendan L. O′Connell,
Shard A Milne,
Ashley Byrne,
Li Yu,
Oliver A. Ryder,
Richard E. Green,
Beth Shapiro
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of heredity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.99
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1471-8505
pISSN - 0022-1503
DOI - 10.1093/jhered/esab021
Subject(s) - biology , extant taxon , genome , evolutionary biology , phylogenetic tree , subfamily , population , sequence assembly , genetics , gene , gene expression , demography , transcriptome , sociology
The Andean bear is the only extant member of the Tremarctine subfamily and the only extant ursid species to inhabit South America. Here, we present an annotated de novo assembly of a nuclear genome from a captive-born female Andean bear, Mischief, generated using a combination of short and long DNA and RNA reads. Our final assembly has a length of 2.23 Gb, and a scaffold N50 of 21.12 Mb, contig N50 of 23.5 kb, and BUSCO score of 88%. The Andean bear genome will be a useful resource for exploring the complex phylogenetic history of extinct and extant bear species and for future population genetics studies of Andean bears.
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