Dear colleagues,
We are excited to share the news about our recently published high-quality reference genome of the leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) in Frontiers in Genetics. The article is freely available.
This data report demonstrates the high-quality of our leopard seal
reference genome, which has a N50 value of 99.4 Mbp, a L50 value of 9, and a BUSCO
completeness of ~94%. The genome size of pinnipeds is highly conserved,
and the leopard seal genome falls within expectations
for size and chromosome number. The final formatted version of the
manuscript will be published soon (including all figures) but all data
reported is already available.
All the best,
Julia and co-authors
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Dr Julia Canitz
Marine and Environmental Sciences Department
Hampton University
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Hampton, VA, 23668
USA
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