Lynx canadensis (Canada lynx) genome assembly, mLynCan4

The Canada lynx is a north American cat species, and has been a model in conservation studies to prevent mammalian species extinction. It is native to Canada, Alaska, and the northern United States. This reference assembly of has been produced as part of the G10K-VGP Project. The sample was collected by Tanya Lama of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Warren Johnson of the Smithsonian Institute, and sequenced in Olivier Fedrigo's group at the Rockefeller University Vertebrate Genome Lab. The genome assembly was conducted by the G10K-VGP group, by Arang Rhie and Sergey Koren of Adam Phillippy's lab at NIH. Manual curation of chromosomes and other genomic features was conducted by the gEVAL group led by Kerstin Howe at the Sanger Institute, Harris Lewin and Joanna Damas at UC Davis, and the Phillippy Lab. The primary haplotype contains the longest contigs of the Pacbio FALCON unzip assembly, scaffolded with 10X linked reads, Bionano optical maps, and Arima HiC reads, with multiple tools to further separate out haplotypes. Funding was provided by the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries of Wildlife to Tanya Lama, HHMI and Rockefeller start-up funds to Erich Jarvis, and individual grants and awards to the persons listed above. The data under this project are made available subject to the Genome10K data use policies (https://genome10k.soe.ucsc.edu/data-use-policies).