RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Improved genome assembly and annotation for the rock pigeon (Columba livia)
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 220947
DO 10.1101/220947
A1 Carson Holt
A1 Michael Campbell
A1 David A. Keays
A1 Nathaniel Edelman
A1 Aurélie Kapusta
A1 Emily Maclary
A1 Eric Domyan
A1 Alexander Suh
A1 Wesley C. Warren
A1 Mark Yandell
A1 M. Thomas P. Gilbert
A1 Michael D. Shapiro
YR 2018
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2018/03/08/220947.abstract
AB The domestic rock pigeon (Columba livia) is among the most widely distributed and phenotypically diverse avian species. This species is broadly studied in ecology, genetics, physiology, behavior, and evolutionary biology, and has recently emerged as a model for understanding the molecular basis of anatomical diversity, the magnetic sense, and other key aspects of avian biology. Here we report an update to the C. livia genome reference assembly and gene annotation dataset. Greatly increased scaffold lengths in the updated reference assembly, along with an updated annotation set, provide improved tools for evolutionary and functional genetic studies of the pigeon, and for comparative avian genomics in general.