Genome assembly of sika deer, Cervus nippon yesoensis
Sika deer (Cervus nippon) is naturally distributed across East Asia and includes 14 subspecies, showing phenotypic and genetic diversity. In this study, we constructed a de novo genome assembly of wild sika deer using one of the largest subspecies, C. n. yesoensis. We used HiFi, high quality long-read based on Pacific Bioscience to assemble our novel genome assembly CerNipYes1.0.