The genome sequence of the whiskered bat, Myotis mystacinus (Kuhl, 1817)

Hazel Ryan; Sonja C Vernes; Emma C Teeling; Meike Mai; Natural History Museum Genome Acquisition Lab; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.23345.1

The genome sequence of the whiskered bat, Myotis mystacinus (Kuhl, 1817)

Wellcome Open Res. 2024 Nov 20:9:684. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.23345.1. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Hazel Ryan¹, Sonja C Vernes², Emma C Teeling^{2

3}, Meike Mai²; Natural History Museum Genome Acquisition Lab; Darwin Tree of Life Barcoding collective; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

Affiliations

¹ Kent Bat Group, Whitstable, England, UK.
² School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland, UK.
³ Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, England, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Myotis mystacinus (whiskered bat; Chordata; Mammalia; Chiroptera; Vespertilionidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 2,081.20 megabases. Most of the assembly (97.52%) is scaffolded into 23 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the X and Y sex chromosomes. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 16.93 kilobases in length.

Keywords: Chiroptera; Myotis mystacinus; chromosomal; genome sequence; whiskered bat.

Grants and funding

WT_/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom