Genomic data of the Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)|基因组学数据集|鸟类研究数据集

The Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) is a medium-sized plover (a wading bird belonging to the subfamily Charadriinae), and often uses a "broken wing act" to distract predators from their nests. These data have been produced as part of the avian phylogenomic project. DNA from the Charadrius vociferus was collected in Loreto Department, Peru. We sequenced the genome to a depth of approximately 100X with short reads from a series of libraries with various insert sizes (170bp, 500bp, 800bp, 2kb, 5kb, 10kb and 20kb). The assembled scaffolds of high quality sequences total 1.2 Gb, with the contig and scaffold N50 values of 32 kb and 3.6 mb respectively. We identified 16,860 protein-coding genes with a mean length of 19.1kb.