%0 Journal Article
%A Bekavac, Milica
%A Coimbra, Raphael
%A Busa, Veronica
%A Behm, Mikaela
%A Wagner, Rebecca
%A Goncalves, Angela
%A Begall, Sabine
%A Frye, Michaela
%A Odom, Duncan
%T De novo genome assembly of Ansell's mole-rat (Fukomys anselli).
%J G3: Genes, genomes, genetics
%V nn
%@ 2160-1836
%C Pittsburgh, PA
%I Genetics Soc. of America
%M DKFZ-2025-02368
%P nn
%D 2025
%Z #EA:B270#LA:B270# / epub
%X Ansell's mole-rat (Fukomys anselli) is an African rodent known for its subterranean lifestyle and unique phenotypic traits, including extreme longevity, magnetoreception, and a cooperative breeding social structure. Efforts to dissect the genetic architecture of these traits and to decipher their phylogenetic relationships within the broader African mole-rat family would greatly benefit from a reference-grade genome. Here, we report a first genome assembly of a male Ansell's mole-rat. By combining Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) long-reads and Illumina short-reads with Hi-C data, we generated a chromosome level assembly with a total length of 2.27 Gb, 412 scaffolds and a scaffold N50 of 72.4 Mb. We identified 99.54
%K Fukomys anselli (Other)
%K Animalia (Other)
%K Ansell’s mole-rat (Other)
%K Bathyergidae (Other)
%K genome assembly (Other)
%K mole-rat (Other)
%K nanopore (Other)
%F PUB:(DE-HGF)16
%9 Journal Article
%$ pmid:41219156
%R 10.1093/g3journal/jkaf271
%U https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/305748