Grus americana (whooping crane) genome, bGruAme2, sequence data
The whooping crane (Grus americana) is the tallest North American bird, named for its whooping sound. It is an endangered species. Along with the sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis), it is one of only two crane species native to North America (from Wikipedia entry). This sample (bGruAme2) is from the mother of a trio of samples, where it and its male mate (bGruAme3) were originally collected as eggs in Wood Buffalo National Park, Alberta Canada, and the child (bGruAme1) bred in captivity at the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Blood sample collection was done by Barry Kinney Hartup at the International Crane Foundation. Use of the samples were coordinated by Hernan Eduardo Morales Villegas and Tom Gilbert in Copenhagen, Denmark, for a trio-based high-quality reference genome of both maternal and paternal haplotypes, and contributed to the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP). Sequencing and assembly were conducted at the Vertebrate Genomes Lab (VGL) at Rockefeller University, led by Olivier Fedrigo and Erich D. Jarvis.