The genome sequence of the Eurasian river otter, Lutra lutra Linnaeus 1758

Dan Mead; Frank Hailer; Elisabeth Chadwick; Roberto Portela Miguez; Michelle Smith; Craig Corton; Karen Oliver; Jason Skelton; Emma Betteridge; Jale Doulcan Doulcan; Olga Dudchenko; Arina Omer; David Weisz; Erez Lieberman Aiden; Shane McCarthy; Kerstin Howe; Ying Sims; James Torrance; Alan Tracey; Richard Challis; Richard Durbin; Mark Blaxter

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15722.1

The genome sequence of the Eurasian river otter, Lutra lutra Linnaeus 1758

Wellcome Open Res. 2020 Feb 19:5:33. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15722.1. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Dan Mead¹, Frank Hailer², Elisabeth Chadwick², Roberto Portela Miguez³, Michelle Smith¹, Craig Corton¹, Karen Oliver¹, Jason Skelton¹, Emma Betteridge¹, Jale Doulcan Doulcan¹, Olga Dudchenko⁴, Arina Omer⁴, David Weisz⁴, Erez Lieberman Aiden⁴, Shane McCarthy¹, Kerstin Howe¹, Ying Sims¹, James Torrance¹, Alan Tracey¹, Richard Challis¹, Richard Durbin¹, Mark Blaxter¹

Affiliations

¹ Wellcome Genome Campus, Wellcome Sanger Institute,, Hinxton, CB10 1SA, UK.
² Cardiff Otter Project, Cardiff University School of Biosciences, Cardiff, CF10 3AX, UK.
³ Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK.
⁴ Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, TX 77030 USA, USA.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Lutra lutra (the Eurasian river otter; Vertebrata; Mammalia; Eutheria; Carnivora; Mustelidae). The genome sequence is 2.44 gigabases in span. The majority of the assembly is scaffolded into 20 chromosomal pseudomolecules, with both X and Y sex chromosomes assembled.

Keywords: Lutra lutra river otter genome sequence chromosomal.

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