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- Title
The Genome of the Beluga Whale (Delphinapterus leucas).
- Authors
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.
- 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.
- Subjects
WHITE whale; GENOMES; DELPHINAPTERUS; DUODENUM; NUCLEOTIDE sequencing
- Publication
Genes, 2017, Vol 8, Issue 12, p378
- ISSN
2073-4425
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/genes8120378