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- The Yellow Warbler is a small songbird that's crucial for conserving California's riparian habitats and shows various ecological and physical traits across its range.
- Researchers have created a detailed genome assembly of a female Yellow Warbler from southern California using advanced sequencing technologies, achieving a 1.22 Gb assembly with high completeness and contiguity.
- This comprehensive genome resource will help scientists study gene flow and adaptation in Yellow Warblers, ultimately aiding in their conservation management efforts.
Article Abstract
The Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia) is a small songbird in the wood-warbler family (Parulidae) that exhibits phenotypic and ecological differences across a widespread distribution and is important to California's riparian habitat conservation. Here, we present a high-quality de novo genome assembly of a vouchered female Yellow Warbler from southern California. Using HiFi long-read and Omni-C proximity sequencing technologies, we generated a 1.22 Gb assembly including 687 scaffolds with a contig N50 of 6.80 Mb, scaffold N50 of 21.18 Mb, and a BUSCO completeness score of 96.0%. This highly contiguous genome assembly provides an essential resource for understanding the history of gene flow, divergence, and local adaptation in Yellow Warblers and can inform conservation management of this charismatic bird species.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11081134 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esae008 | DOI Listing |
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