Balearica regulorum gibbericeps (Grey crowned-crane) genome, bBalReg1, primary haplotype
The Grey Crowned Crane (Balearica regulorum gibbericeps) is found in the dry African savannah south of the Sahara, as well as in the wetter areas and grassy flatlands near lakes and rivers in Uganda and Kenya. This assembly has been produced as part of the G10K-VGP and B10K projects. Sequencing was conducted with Pacific long reads, Bionano optical maps, and 10X Genomics libraries at the Rockefeller University Vertebrate Genomes Lab led by Olivier Fedrigo, HiC at Arima Genomics, and Illumina sequencing. Genome assembly was conducted by the Giulio Formenti, and supervised by Arang Rhie, using the VGP 1.6 pipeline. The primary haplotype was assembled to chromosomes, whereas the alternate just as contigs. Funding was raised by Tom Gilbert and Erich Jarvis from B10K contributors and HHMI. The raw data and assembly are currently under a G10K-VGP publication embargo until removed from this description, following the G10K data use policy at the following URL: https://genome10k.soe.ucsc.edu/data-use-policies/