The genome sequence of the Mauritius kestrel, Falco punctatus (Temminck, 1821)

Hernán E Morales; Ken Norris; Sion Henshaw; Vikash Tatayah; Kevin Ruhomaun; Cock van Oosterhout; Jim J Groombridge; M Thomas P Gilbert; 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

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.22452.1

The genome sequence of the Mauritius kestrel, Falco punctatus (Temminck, 1821)

Wellcome Open Res. 2024 Jun 13:9:312. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.22452.1. eCollection 2024.

Affiliations

¹ Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
² Centre for Evolutionary Hologenomics, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
³ Natural History Museum, London, England, UK.
⁴ Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, Vacoas, Mauritius.
⁵ National Parks and Conservation Service (Government of Mauritius), Reduit, Mauritius.
⁶ School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, UK.
⁷ Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, Division of Human and Social Sciences, University of Kent, Canterbury, England, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Falco punctatus (the Mauritius kestrel; Chordata; Aves; Falconiformes; Falconidae). The genome sequence is 1,279.3 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 23 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the Z sex chromosome. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 17.34 kilobases in length.

Keywords: Falco punctatus; Falconiformes; Mauritius kestrel; chromosomal; genome sequence.

Grants and funding

Danish National Research Foundation grant DNRF143. European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under a Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant (840519). European Research Council (ERODE, 101078303)