Genomic data from White-flippered penguin (<em>Eudyptula minor albosignata</em>).
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The White-flippered penguin is a small penguin closely related to the New Zealand little blue penguin. It is occasionally considered a unique species or sometimes a subspecies of the New Zealand little blue penguin, however genetic research indicates that the two taxa are probably incipient. The reason it is occasionally considered a separate species or subspecies is because it has white markings on its flippers. Most taxonomists consider it to be a colour morph of the New Zealand little blue penguin. It nests in headlands, caves, rock jumbles and in the sheltered areas at the bases of bays, only on Banks Peninsula and Motunau Island near Christchurch, New Zealand. The white-flippered penguin is a Taonga, or treasured possession in Mori culture. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) considers all Eudyptula penguins as least concern.<br>We sequenced the genome of an adult White-flippered penguin from Christchurch Antarctic Centre, originally from Banks Peninsula, Canterbury, New Zealand South Island (provided by Pauline Howard) to a depth of approximately 100x with short reads from a series of libraries with various insert sizes (250bp-20Kb). The assembled scaffolds of high quality sequences total 1.3Gb, with the contig and scaffold N50 values of 93.53Kb and 20.85Mb respectively. We identified 17424 protein-coding genes.
白鳍企鹅（White-flippered penguin）是一种小型企鹅，与新西兰小蓝企鹅（New Zealand little blue penguin）亲缘关系紧密。该物种曾被部分学者视为独立物种，亦有观点将其归为新西兰小蓝企鹅的亚种；但遗传学研究表明，这两个类群大概率处于物种形成初期阶段。其被单独划为物种或亚种的原因，在于其鳍肢带有白色斑纹。多数分类学家则认为，它仅是新西兰小蓝企鹅的一个色型变种。该企鹅的巢址包括岬角、洞穴、乱石堆以及海湾底部的遮蔽区域，仅分布于新西兰基督城附近的班克斯半岛（Banks Peninsula）与莫图瑙岛（Motunau Island）。白鳍企鹅在毛利文化中属于Taonga，即珍贵的财富。世界自然保护联盟（International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN）将小蓝企鹅属（Eudyptula）下的所有企鹅均评定为无危等级。 我们对一只成年白鳍企鹅进行了全基因组测序：该样本取自基督城南极中心，其原生栖息地位于新西兰南岛坎特伯雷地区的班克斯半岛，由Pauline Howard提供；我们采用一系列不同插入片段长度（250bp至20Kb）的建库方案获取短读长测序数据，最终测序深度约为100×。我们组装得到的高质量支架序列（scaffold）总长度达1.3Gb，重叠群（contig）与支架序列的N50值分别为93.53Kb和20.85Mb。共注释得到17424个蛋白质编码基因。
