Troglodytes aedon
The house wren (Troglodytes aedon) is a very small passerine in the wren family Troglodytidae. It is found in southern Canada, the USA and Mexico. It occurs in most suburban areas in its range. It formerly included many subspecies resident in South America and in the Caribbean that are now considered as separate species. The name troglodytes means "hole dweller", and is a reference to the bird's tendency to disappear into crevices when hunting insects or to seek shelter (from Wikipedia entry). This sample of a female individual was procured by Jean-Nicolas Audet at the Rockefeller University Field Research Center in Millbrook, New York, for a vocal learning study and 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.
isolate
bTroAed1
dev_stage
adult
collection_date
2018-05-28
geo_loc_name
USA: Millbrook, New York
sex
female
tissue
blood
biomaterial_provider
The Rockefeller University: Jean-Nicolas Audet
collected_by
Jean-Nicolas Audet
lat_lon
41.767983 N 73.750862 W
store_cond
-80oC
treatment
100% EtOH
Source ID
18.016
BioSampleModel
Model organism or animal