title: Animal sample from mother of Camelus dromedarius (Arabian camel) for VGP reference genome, mCamDro3
organism: Camelus dromedarius
description: The Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius ) is a one-humped camel species found in the Middle East and North Africa. It is remarkable for its adaptations to arid environments and has been integral to human societies in these regions. This sample (mCamDro3) is from a female bred at Mr. Shabat bin Saqar Al-Muraikhi camel breeding farm, in Qatar. The sample was part of a trio (offspring mCamDro1 and male mCamDro2). These samples were collected and coordinated by Farooq Omar Al-Ajli (Katara Biodiversity Genomes Program), to create trio-based high-quality assemblies of the maternal and paternal haplotypes for the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) and Qatar Biodiversity Genomes Project (QBGP). Sequencing was done at the Vertebrate Genomes Lab (VGL) at Rockefeller University, led by Olivier Fedrigo and Erich D. Jarvis. Genome assembly was conducted at Sidra Medicine by Farooq Omar Al-Ajli and Khalid A. Fakhro in collaboration with VGL.