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Numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus)

Genome & Transcriptome Data NCBI Accession: PRJNA786364

Publication: Emma Peel, Luke Silver, Parice Brandies, Takashi Hayakawa, Katherine Belov, Carolyn J. Hogg, Genome assembly of the numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus), the only termitivorous marsupial, Gigabyte, 2022

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Assembly Statistics  
Assembly 10X Genomics
Assembler program Supernova v2.1.1
Genome size 3.42 GB
#contigs 219,447
Contig N50 0.038 Mb
# scaffolds 112,299
Scaffold N50 0.223 Mb
Largest Scaffold 2.05 Mb
Largest Contig 0.326 Mb
% Genome in Scaffolds 96.47%
% Gaps 3.52%


BUSCO v3.1.0 v5.2.2
Genes 4104 9226
Complete 82.8% 78.7%
Single Copy 79.1% 73.2%
Duplicated 3.7% 5.5%
Fragmented 9.6% 6.3%
Missing 7.6% 15.0%

This genome data was supported by funding from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Innovations in Peptide and Protein Science (CE200100012) and Discovery Project (DP180102465), and the Oz Mammals Genomics consortium supported by funding from Bioplatforms Australia through the Australian Government National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). Image was supplied by Wayne Lawler, Australian Wildlife Conservancy.