Rhinopoma cystops (Egyptian mouse-tailed bat) genome, mRhiCys1, sequence data
The Egyptian mouse-tailed bat (Rhinopoma cystops) is a species of mouse-tailed bat found in North Africa and the Middle East. It is a colonial species, forming aggregations consisting of a few individuals or as many as one thousand and utilizes both caves and human structures as roosts (from Wikipedia entry). This sample of a male individual was procured by Yomiran Nissan to generate a high-quality reference genome for Bat1K and the Bat Biology Foundation. Sequencing was conducted at Paratus Sciences and genome assembly was conducted at the Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL) at the Rockefeller University, led by Erich D. Jarvis, Giulio Formenti, and Jennifer Balacco.