Arctostaphylos glauca isolate:GM13 | cultivar:Not applicable Genome sequencing. Arctostaphylos glauca isolate:GM13 | cultivar:Not applicable

The genus Arctostaphylos (Ericaceae), commonly referred to as manzanitas, are a group of shrubs and small trees, with high endemic diversity in California. Though they are ecologically significant and have received much attention from California botanists, the boundaries among manzanita species and subspecies remain unclear. As part of a larger investigation using next-generation sequencing data to evaluate species diversity of manzanitas, we are assembling a manzanita genome sequence, for a distinct and widespread diploid species Arctostaphylos glauca. We used Oxford nanopore sequencing and short-read Illumina sequence data to produce an assembly of high contiguity with a low sequencing error rate. This is the first genome assembly for the genus Arctostaphylos and subfamily Arbutoideae.