Urocitellus parryii (Arctic ground squirrel) genome, mUroPar1, sequence data

The Arctic ground squirrel (Urocitellus parryii) is a species of ground squirrel native to the Arctic and Subarctic of North America and Asia. It can be found in regions of Northern Canada ranging from the Arctic Circle to northern British Columbia, and down to the southern border of the Northwest Territories, as well as Alaska and Siberia (from Wikipedia entry). The sample was procured from the Pump Station No. 4 area of Northern Alaska by Vadim Fedorov and Anya Goropashnaya of the University of Alaska Fairbanks and coordinated by Trygve Bakken, Ed Lein, and Rebecca Hodge at the Allen Institute for Brain Science to generate a high-quality reference genome for the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP). Sequencing and genome assembly were conducted at the Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL) at the Rockefeller University, led by Erich D. Jarvis, Giulio Formenti, and Jennifer Balacco.

北极地松鼠（Urocitellus parryii）是原产于北美与亚洲北极及亚北极地区的一种地松鼠物种。其分布范围涵盖加拿大北部从北极圈至不列颠哥伦比亚省北部、向南延伸至西北地区南部边界的区域，以及阿拉斯加和西伯利亚（源自维基百科条目）。该样本由阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯分校的瓦季姆·费多罗夫（Vadim Fedorov）与安雅·戈罗帕什纳亚（Anya Goropashnaya）从阿拉斯加北部的4号泵站区域采集，并由艾伦脑科学研究所的特里格夫·巴肯（Trygve Bakken）、艾德·莱恩（Ed Lein）与丽贝卡·霍奇（Rebecca Hodge）协调，旨在为脊椎动物基因组计划（Vertebrate Genomes Project, VGP）构建高质量参考基因组。测序与基因组组装工作由洛克菲勒大学脊椎基因组实验室（Vertebrate Genome Lab, VGL）开展，由埃里希·D·贾维斯（Erich D. Jarvis）、朱利奥·福尔门蒂（Giulio Formenti）与珍妮弗·巴拉科（Jennifer Balacco）主导。