Genome data of the bird of paradise, Ptiloris paradiseus

The Ptiloris paradiseus, common name paradise riflebird, is a bird-of-paradise species endemic to eastern Australia, where it occurs in the rainforests of New South Wales and central Queensland. The paradise riflebird is medium-sized, up to 30 cm long. The male is black with an iridescent greenish blue crown, throat and central tail feathers. It has a black curved bill, black feet, dark brown iris and yellow mouth. The female is an olive brown bird with barred blackish below with a long white brow above her eye. The diet consists mainly of insects and fruits. In displays, the male extends his wings and fans them upward with its head behind the wings to expose his metallic green throat feathers. He then moves his head from side to side with open bill to show off his bright yellow mouth.(Wikipedia).<br>Here we present the de novo assembled genome totalling 1.04Gb in length, with 2062 scaffolds having an N50 of 4.27Mb, annotated with 17,269 protein coding genes and BUSCO analysis demonstrating a 95.1% completeness. This genome assembly was used as the reference genome for alignment of the Paradisaea rubra and Pteridophora alberti reads generated from museum tissue.