Equus asinus isolate:Maral har | breed:Guanzhong donkey Genome sequencing and assembly. Equus asinus isolate:Maral har | breed:Guanzhong donkey

Domestic donkey (Equus asinus) is a representative of Equus. As a main livestock, domestic donkey has played an import role in human society for thousands of years. It is generally recognized that the progenitor of domestic donkey is the African wild ass. Domestic donkey has 62 chromosomes, which is less than that of horse (2n=64). The genome sequences of domestic donkey should potentially shed light on Equus adaptive evolution.