Entering the era of conservation genomics: Cost-effective assembly of the African wild dog genome using linked long reads
Ellie E. Armstrong, Ryan W. Taylor, Stefan Prost, Peter Blinston, Esther van der Meer, Hillary Madzikanda, Olivia Mufute, Roseline L. Mandisodza‐Chikerema, John Stuelpnagel, Claudio Sillero‐Zubiri, Dmitri A. Petrov
This paper presents a cost-effective method to assemble high-quality genomes for the African wild dog using linked-read sequencing, highlighting its high heterozygosity and potential applications in conservation genetics.
bioRxiv · Sep 27, 2017 · PreprintGenomics