Vicugna pacos (alpaca) genome, mVicPac1, sequence data
The alpaca (Vicugna pacos) is a domesticated species of South American camelid. Traditionally, alpacas were kept in herds that grazed on the level heights of the Andes of Southern Peru, Western Bolivia, Ecuador, and Northern Chile. More recently, alpacas may be found on farms and ranches worldwide, with thousands of animals born and raised annually (from Wikipedia entry). This sample of a male from the Trevor-Lovejoy Zoo in Millbrook, New York was procured by Laura Jaworski, and coordinated by Kyleen Depew and Jessica Bennettt of the Zoo, Barbara Han of the Cary Institute of Ecosystems Studies, and Melanie Couture of Rockefeller University, to generate a high-quality reference genome for the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) and a COVID-19 project.