[DOI] 10.5524/100649

[Title] High-coverage genomes of all extant penguin taxa

[Release Date] 2019-09-11

[Citation] Gilbert, MP; Sinding, MS; Zhang, G; García Borboroglu, P; Pan, H;
Cole, T; Bi, X; Fang, M; Zhou, C; Yang, Z; Ksepka, DT; Hart, T; Bouzat, JL;
Argilla, LS; Bertelsen, MF; Boersma, PD; Bost, C; Cherel, Y; Dann, P; Fiddaman,
SR; Howard, P; Labuschagne, K; Mattern, T; Miller, G; Parker, P; Phillips, RA;
Quillfeldt, P; Ryan, PG; Taylor, H; Thompson, DR; Young, MJ; Ellegaard, MR;
Pacheco, G; Shepherd, LD; D Tennyson, AJ; Grosser, S; Kay, E; Nupen, LJ;
Ellenberg, U; Houston, DM; Reeve, AH; Johnson, K; Masello, JF; Stracke, T;
McKinlay, B; Zhang, DX (2019): High-coverage genomes of all extant penguin taxa
GigaScience Database. https://dx.doi.org/10.5524/100649

[Data Type] Genomic

[Data Summary] Penguins (Sphenisciformes) are a highly diverse order of seabirds
distributed widely across the Southern Hemisphere. They shared a common ancestor
with Procellariiformes about 60 million years ago, and have subsequently
transited from flying seabirds to flightless marine divers. Approximately 20
extant penguin species are recognized across six well-defined genera, ranging
from the Galápagos Islands on the equator, to the oceanic temperate forests of
New Zealand, the rocky coastlines of the sub-Antarctic islands, and the sea-ice
around Antarctica. To inhabit such diverse and extreme environments, this
speciose order has evolved many physiological and morphological adaptations.
However, penguins are also highly sensitive to climate change, and most species
are already declining or are predicted to decline under future climate change
scenarios. Therefore, penguins are an exciting system for understanding the
evolutionary processes of speciation, adaptation and demography. Genomic data
are an emerging resource for addressing questions about such processes. Here we
present 19 new high-coverage genomes that, together with two previously
published genomes also available in GigaDB, encompass all extant penguin
species. As such, this dataset provides a novel resource for understanding the
evolutionary history within penguins, and between penguins and other avifauna.
We believe that our dataset and project will be important for cultural heritage
and the conservation of this iconic Southern Hemisphere species assemblage.
Comparative and evolutionary genomic analyses are currently being carried out,
and the consortium welcomes new members interested in contributing to this work.
While this work is still underway we have published these 19 penguin genomes to
provide early-release, while requesting researchers intending to use this data
for similar cross-species comparisons to continue to follow the Fort Lauderdale
and Toronto rules.

[File Location] https://s3.ap-northeast-1.wasabisys.com/gigadb-datasets/live/pub/10.5524/100001_101000/100649/

[File name] - [File Description]
readme_100649.txt  -  
MPEST.nwk  -  phylogenetic tree file of all species of penguins, in newick format
mafft_concat_No_Missing_Data.phylip.gz  -  alignment file of all common orthologous genes found in all species of penguins. Used to generate the phylogenetic tree.

[License]
All files and data are distributed under the CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public
Domain Dedication (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/), unless
specifically stated otherwise, see http://gigadb.org/site/term for more details.

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