title: Animal sample from Urocitellus parryii (Arctic ground squirrel) for VGP reference genome, mUroPar3
organism: Urocitellus parryii
description: The Arctic ground squirrel (Urocitellus parryii) is a species of ground squirrel native to the Arctic and Subarctic of North America and Asia. It can be found in regions of Northern Canada ranging from the Arctic Circle to northern British Columbia, and down to the southern border of the Northwest Territories, as well as Alaska and Siberia (from Wikipedia entry). The sample was procured from the Atigun Pass area of Alaska by Vadim Fedorov and Anya Goropashnaya of the University of Alaska Fairbanks and coordinated by Trygve Bakken, Ed Lein, and Rebecca Hodge at the Allen Institute for Brain Science to generate HiC scaffolding data for the mUroPar3 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.
attributes.tag: isolate
attributes.value: mUroPar3
attributes.tag: dev_stage
attributes.value: Juvenile
attributes.tag: collection_date
attributes.value: 2020-02-07
attributes.tag: geo_loc_name
attributes.value: USA: Atigun Pass Area, Alaska
attributes.tag: sex
attributes.value: male
attributes.tag: tissue
attributes.value: liver
attributes.tag: biomaterial_provider
attributes.value: University of Alaska Fairbanks: Anya Goropashnaya
attributes.tag: birth_date
attributes.value: 2019-06-01
attributes.tag: collected_by
attributes.value: University of Alaska Fairbanks: Vadim Fedorov
attributes.tag: lat_lon
attributes.value: 68.12944 N 149.47583 W
attributes.tag: store_cond
attributes.value: -80oC
attributes.tag: treatment
attributes.value: frozen
attributes.tag: Source ID
attributes.value: 19-011
attributes.tag: BioSampleModel
attributes.value: Model organism or animal