Open AccessA high-quality genome assembly for the endangered golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana)
Author(s) -
Lu Wang,
Juanxia Wu,
Xiaomei Liu,
D Giovanni Di,
Yuhong Liang,
Yifei Feng,
Suyun Zhang,
Baoguo Li,
Xiao-Guang Qi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
gigascience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.947
H-Index - 54
ISSN - 2047-217X
DOI - 10.1093/gigascience/giz098
Subject(s) - biology , genome , sequence assembly , genomics , reference genome , contig , genetics , evolutionary biology , whole genome sequencing , dna sequencing , gene , computational biology , gene expression , transcriptome
The golden snub-nosed monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana) is an endangered colobine species endemic to China, which has several distinct traits including a unique social structure. Although a genome assembly for R. roxellana is available, it is incomplete and fragmented because it was constructed using short-read sequencing technology. Thus, important information such as genome structural variation and repeat sequences may be absent.