Apteryx mantelli (North Island brown kiwi) genome, bAptMan1, sequence data
The North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) is a species of kiwi that is widespread in the northern two-thirds of the North Island of New Zealand. It is the most common kiwi. It holds the world's record for laying the largest eggs relative to its body size (modified from Wikipedia entry). This sample of male was collected by the veterinary team at the Smithsonian's National Zoo &amp; Conservation Biology Institute, and coordinated by Klaus-Peter Koepfli to be used to generate a high-quality reference genome for the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP). Sequencing and genome assembly were conducted at the Vertebrate Genomes Lab (VGL) at the Rockefeller University, led by Erich D. Jarvis, Giulio Formenti, and Jennifer Balacco.