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Christmas Island blue-tailed skink (Cryptoblepharus egeriae)

Genome & Transcriptome Data

Publication: Tristram O. Dodge, Katherine A. Farquharson, Claire Ford, Lisa Cavanagh, Kristen Schubert, Molly Schumer, Katherine Belov, Carolyn J. Hogg, Genomes of two Extinct-in-the-Wild reptiles from Christmas Island reveal distinct evolutionary histories and conservation insights, Molecular Ecology Resources. 2023.

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aws s3 cp --no-sign-request s3://threatenedspecies/Cryptoblepharus_egeriae/Cryege_md5sum.txt .
aws s3 cp --no-sign-request s3://threatenedspecies/Cryptoblepharus_egeriae/rCryege1.global.20221122.fasta.gz .
aws s3 cp --no-sign-request s3://threatenedspecies/Cryptoblepharus_egeriae/rCryege1.pri.20221122.fasta.gz .
aws s3 cp --no-sign-request s3://threatenedspecies/Cryptoblepharus_egeriae/rCryege1.fgenesh.20221122.gff3 .
aws s3 cp --no-sign-request s3://threatenedspecies/Cryptoblepharus_egeriae/README-AWS.txt .
aws s3 sync --no-sign-request s3://threatenedspecies/Cryptoblepharus_egeriae/ .


Assembly Statistics  
Assembly PacBio HiFi
Assembler program hifiasm v0.16
Genome size 1.40 GB
#contigs 72
Contig N50 109.13 Mb
Largest Contig 269.27 Mb


BUSCO v5.4.3 vertebrata odb10
Genes 3354
Complete 97.8%
Single Copy 97.1%
Duplicated 0.7%
Fragmented 0.7%
Missing 1.5%

This genome data was supported by funding from the Threatened Species Initiative (TSI), NCRIS funded Bioplatforms Australia, and the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science (CE200100012). Image was supplied by Lisa Cavanagh, Taronga Conservation Society Australia.