Genomic data from Northern rockhopper penguin (<em>Eudyptes moseleyi</em>).

The Northern rockhopper penguin (also known as Moseley's rockhopper penguin or Moseley's penguin) is a small crested penguin closely related to the Eastern and Western rockhopper penguins. The Northern rockhopper penguin breeds on Amsterdam and Gough islands. They breed in colonies at sea level, on cliff sides and sometimes inland. Populations of the Northern rockhopper penguin have declined drastically, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies them as endangered.<br>We sequenced the genome of an adult Northern rockhopper penguin from Amsterdam Island, Southern Indian Ocean (provided by Yves Cherel) to a depth of approximately 139x with short reads from a series of libraries with various insert sizes (250bp-20Kb). The assembled scaffolds of high quality sequences total 1.23Gb, with the contig and scaffold N50 values of 20.86Kb and 2.14Mb respectively. We identified 16812 protein-coding genes.

北跳岩企鹅（Northern rockhopper penguin，又称莫斯利跳岩企鹅或莫斯利企鹅）是一种小型冠企鹅，与东跳岩企鹅和西跳岩企鹅亲缘关系密切。该物种在阿姆斯特丹岛（Amsterdam Island）与戈夫岛（Gough Island）繁殖，其繁殖群落建于海平面区域、悬崖边坡，有时也会在内陆地带活动繁殖。北跳岩企鹅的种群数量已大幅下降，国际自然保护联盟（International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN）将其列为濒危物种。<br>本研究对采自印度洋南部阿姆斯特丹岛的一只成年北跳岩企鹅（由Yves Cherel提供）进行了全基因组测序，采用一系列不同插入片段长度（250bp~20Kb）的文库构建短读长测序，最终测序深度约为139×。经组装得到的高质量序列支架总长度为1.23Gb，其重叠群（contig）N50与支架（scaffold）N50分别为20.86Kb和2.14Mb。本研究共鉴定得到16812个蛋白质编码基因。