Animal sample from Anomalurus derbianus (Lord Derby's scaly-tailed squirrel) for VGP reference genome, mAnoDer1
Anomalurus derbianus
Lord Derby's scaly-tailed squirrel (Anomalurus derbianus) is an anomalurid rodent native to Africa, living in tropical and subtropical rainforests in western and central Africa (from Wikipedia entry). This sample of a female individual found in the Democratic Republic of Congo was collected by W.T. Stanley and coordinated by Adam Ferguson of the Field Natural Museum of History in Chicago and Paul Hime of Washington University in Saint Louis 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. We note that the mitogenome generated for this individual showed 89.39% similarity with an Anomalurus pelii mitogenome (NC_038172.1) vs. 88.83% with an Anomalurus derbianus mitogenome (NC_038173.1) on BLAST, and not a higher identity to any other species in GenBank at the time of submisson. We are submitting the assembly under the A. derbianus species name, given that was the original vouchered specimen indentification.
isolate
mAnoDer1
dev_stage
unknown
collection_date
2013
geo_loc_name
Democratic Republic of the Congo: near Baliko, Tshuapa Province
sex
female
tissue
kidney
biomaterial_provider
Field Museum of History: Adam Ferguson
collected_by
W.T. Stanley
lat_lon
0.2990 S 20.8764 E
store_cond
-80oC
treatment
Flash frozen
Source ID
FMNH 222639
BioSampleModel
Model organism or animal