The genome sequence of the Mauritius parakeet, Alexandrinus eques (formerly Psittacula eques) (A.Newton & E. Newton, 1876)

Hernán E Morales; Jim J Groombridge; Simon Tollington; Sion Henshaw; Vikash Tatayah; Kevin Ruhomaun; Cock van Oosterhout; 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.22583.1

The genome sequence of the Mauritius parakeet, Alexandrinus eques (formerly Psittacula eques) (A.Newton & E. Newton, 1876)

Wellcome Open Res. 2024 Jul 16:9:378. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.22583.1. eCollection 2024.

Affiliations

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

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Alexandrinus eques, formerly Psittacula eques (the Mauritius Parakeet; Chordata; Aves; Psittaciformes; Psittacidae). The genome sequence is 1203.8 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 35 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the Z sex chromosome. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 18.86 kilobases in length.

Keywords: Alexandrinus eques; Mauritius parakeet; Psittaciformes; Psittacula echo; Psittacula eques; chromosomal; genome sequence.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by Wellcome through core funding to the Wellcome Sanger Institute [206194, https://doi.org/10.35802/206194]. 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) Royal Society International Collaboration Awards 2020 (ICA∖R1∖201194)