Willisornis vidua Genome sequencing and assembly. Willisornis vidua

enome sequencing and assembly represent one of the most important ways of characterizing the avian biodiversity at the molecular level. We sequenced the genome of two new birds that belong to the New World suboscines infraorder Tyrannides, and are native to Brazil: the Great Kiskadee (Pitangus sulphuratus), and the Xingu Scale-backed Antbird (Willisornis vidua). The Xingu scale-backed Antbird is geographically restricted to the Amazon region, and the Great Kiskadee most South America, including urban areas across the whole Neotropical region. We constructed multiple shotgun and mate-pair Illumina libraries, resulting in ~57x and ~43x physical coverage respectively. We assembled high contiguity genomes using ABySS.