Heliangelus exortis
The tourmaline sunangel (Heliangelus exortis) is a hummingbird species in the coquettes, subfamily Lesbiinae. It is found in Andes ranges of Colombia and south on the eastern slope to Ecuador's Morona-Santiago Province (modified from Wikipedia). Some populations exhibit a sex-limited polymorphism where females can have either a drab or variable male-like phenotype depending on the amount of iridescence on their gorgets. This sample is from a female in Fusagasuga, Cundinamarca, Colombia, collected by Andres Cuervo, vouchered at Humbolt Institute in Columbia, and coordinated by Daniel Cadena of the Universidad de Los Andes for a high-quality reference genome for the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) and research on hummingbirds. Sequencing and genome assembly were conducted at the Vertebrate Genomes Lab (VGL) at the Rockefeller University, led by Olivier Fedrigo and Erich D. Jarvis.
isolate
bHelExo1
dev_stage
adult
collection_date
2020-10-19
sex
female
tissue
blood
biomaterial_provider
Daniel Cadena: Humboldt Institute and AMNH
collected_by
Andres Cuervo
store_cond
-80oC
treatment
flash frozen in liquid nitrogen
altitude
2900 m
country
Colombia: Cundinamarca, Fusagasuga vda. Los Robles, filo El Minoral
lat_lon
4.42472 N 74.30343 W
specimen_voucher
ICN-40453 (FUS-350)
BioSampleModel
Model organism or animal