Lepidochelys kempii (Kemp's ridley sea turtle) for VGP reference genome, rLepKem1, sequence data
Kemp's ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii), also called commonly the Atlantic ridley sea turtle, Kemp's ridley turtle, and Kemp's ridley, is a species of turtle in the family Cheloniidae. L. kempii is the rarest species of sea turtle and is the world's most endangered species of sea turtle. The species L. kempii primarily occupies habitat around the Gulf of Mexico, though its migrations into the Atlantic Ocean are being affected by rising temperatures (from Wikipedia entry). This sample from a juvenile collected by Jamie Stoll and Lisa Komoroske from the New England Aquarium in Quincy, Massachusetts and was coordinated by Camila Mazzoni and Lisa Komoroske to generate a high-quality reference genome for the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP).