Eptesicus chiriquinus (Chiriquinan serotine) genome, mEptChi1, sequence data
The Chiriquinan serotine (Eptesicus chiriquinus) is a species of house bat found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, and Amazonia Legal. Its type locality is in Boquete, Chiriqui from an elevation of 4,000 ft (1,200 m). The species is an insectivore and is likely forest-dependent. It prefers moist habitats, montane tropical forests, or evergreen forests (from Wikipedia entry). This sample of a male individual found in Suriname was procured by Burton Lim 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.