Struthio camelus (North African ostrich) bStrCam2 transcriptome
The common ostrich (Struthio camelus), or simply ostrich, is a species of flightless bird native to certain large areas of Africa. It is one of two extant species of ostriches, the only living members of the genus Struthio in the ratite order of birds. The North African ostrich (Struthio camelus camelus) is the nominate subspecies of the common ostrich from West and North Africa. It has the largest average size among the subspecies of ostriches, making it the largest living bird (from Wikipedia entries).The cells from this sample were derived from an embryonic day 7 (Hamburger-Hamilton Stage 14) embryo, incubated at 37 degrees Celsius. Extraembryonic structures were excluded from dissection. The egg was procured from Floeck's Country Ranch (Tucumcari, NM, USA 88401) and is a non-pedigreed hybrid of the "blue-necked" Somali ostrich (Struthio molybdophanes) and the "red-necked" North African sub-species of the common ostrich (Struthio camelus camelus). The sample was procured by Matthew Biegler to generate a transcriptomic data for the bStrCam1 reference genome for the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP). RNA was extracted using QIAGEN RNEasy Micro Kit using the standard protocol. Sequencing was conducted at the Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL) at the Rockefeller University, led by Erich D. Jarvis, Giulio Formenti, and Jennifer Balacco.