Project name: Rhinolophus ferrumequinum isolate:MPI-CBG mRhiFer1

Description: The greater horseshoe bat, like some other bat species, are much longer lived like humans relative to their body size, and is being used as species to study the genetics of longevity. It native distribution covers Europe, North Africa, Central Asia and Eastern Asia. This reference assembly of has been produced as part of the G10K-VGP Project and Bat 1K Project. The sample was collected by Gareth Jones, and processed for genome sequencing by Sylke Winkler in Gene Myers' group at the Max Plank Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) and by Olivier Fedrigo's group at the Rockefeller University Vertebrate Genome lab. The genome assembly was conducted by the G10K-VGP group, by Gene Myers and Martin Pippel at MPI-CBG and Arang Rhie and Sergey Koren of Adam Phillippy's lab at NIH. Manual curation of chromosomes and other genomic features was conducted by the gEVAL group led by Kerstin Howe at the Sanger Institute, Harris Lewin and Joanna Damas at UC Davis, and the Phillippy Lab. The primary haplotype contains the longest contigs of the Pacbio FALCON unzip assembly, scaffolded with 10X linked reads, Bionano optical maps, and Arima HiC reads, with multiple tools to further separate out haplotypes. Funding was provided by the MPI-CPG to Gene Myers, and HHMI and Rockefeller start-up funds to Erich Jarvis, and individual grants and awards to the persons listed above. Released from embargo April 29, 2021.

Data type: Genome sequencing and assembly

Sample scope: Monoisolate

Relevance: ModelOrganism

Release date: 2019-01-28

Last updated: 2018-09-03