Merops nubicus (Carmine Bee-eater) genome, bMerNub1

The Northern Carmine Bee-eater (Merops nubicus nubicus) is part of the bee-eater family, Meropidae, and is also known as the Nubian bee-eater. This assembly has been produced as part of the G10K-VGP project. Sequencing was conducted with Pacific long reads, Bionano optical maps, and 10X Genomics libraries at the Rockefeller University Vertebrate Genomes Lab led by Olivier Fedrigo, HiC at Arima Genomics, and Illumina sequencing at NovaGene. Genome assembly was conducted by the Calvinna Caswara, and supervised by Arang Rhie, using the VGP 1.5 pipeline. The primary haplotype was assembled to chromosomes, whereas the alternate just as contigs. Funding was raised by Tom Gilbert and Erich Jarvis from B10K contributors and HHMI. The raw data and assembly are currently under a G10K-VGP publication embargo until removed from this description, following the G10K data use policy at the following URL: https://genome10k.soe.ucsc.edu/data-use-policies/