TY  - JOUR
AU  - Bekavac, Milica
AU  - Coimbra, Raphael
AU  - Busa, Veronica
AU  - Behm, Mikaela
AU  - Wagner, Rebecca
AU  - Goncalves, Angela
AU  - Begall, Sabine
AU  - Frye, Michaela
AU  - Odom, Duncan
TI  - De novo genome assembly of Ansell's mole-rat (Fukomys anselli).
JO  - G3: Genes, genomes, genetics
VL  - nn
SN  - 2160-1836
CY  - Pittsburgh, PA
PB  - Genetics Soc. of America
M1  - DKFZ-2025-02368
SP  - nn
PY  - 2025
N1  - #EA:B270#LA:B270# / epub
AB  - 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
KW  - Fukomys anselli (Other)
KW  - Animalia (Other)
KW  - Ansell’s mole-rat (Other)
KW  - Bathyergidae (Other)
KW  - genome assembly (Other)
KW  - mole-rat (Other)
KW  - nanopore (Other)
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - pmid:41219156
DO  - DOI:10.1093/g3journal/jkaf271
UR  - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/305748
ER  -