Pogoniulus pusillus (red-fronted tinkerbird) genome, bPogPus1

The red-fronted tinkerbird, (Pogoniulus pusillus) is a small African barbet that has a strikingly marked red forecrown patch above the bill in adults. Young birds lack the red forehead and sexes are similar in appearance. The sample was collected from Mlawula Game Reserve, Eswatini, under permit from The Kingdom of Eswatini Big Game Parks. This assembly has been produced as part of the G10K-VGP and B10K projects. Sequencing was conducted with PacBio long reads, Bionano optical maps, and 10X Genomics linked reads at the Rockefeller University Vertebrate Genomes Lab led by Olivier Fedrigo and Erich Jarvis, HiC at Arima Genomics, and Illumina sequencing. Genome assembly was conducted using the VGP 1.6 pipeline. The primary haplotype was assembled to chromosomes, whereas the alternate as contigs only. Genome coordination and funding was by Alexander Kirschel. The raw data and assembly are currently under a G10K-VGP publication embargo until removed from this description, following the G10K data use policy at the following URL: https://genome10k.soe.ucsc.edu/data-use-policies/.