title: Animal sample from Amazona ochrocephala (yellow-crowned parrot) for VGP reference genome, bAmaOch1
organism: Amazona ochrocephala
description: The yellow-crowned parrot (Amazona ochrocephala) is a species of parrot native to tropical South America, Panama and Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean. It is a bird of tropical forests (both humid and dry), woodlands, mangroves, and savannas and may also be found on cultivated land and suburban areas (from Wikipedia entry). This sample of a female individual rescued in Yarumal, Antioquia, Colombia by the organization Corantioquia was procured by Paola Pulido-Santacruz to generate a high-quality reference genome for the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP). Sequencing and genome assembly were conducted at the Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL) at the Rockefeller University, led by Erich D. Jarvis, Giulio Formenti, and Jennifer Balacco.