Genomic data from Galápagos penguin (<em>Spheniscus mendiculus</em>).

The Galápagos penguin is endemic to the Galápagos Islands, and is the only penguin with breeding colonies north of the equator. The cool waters of the Humboldt and Cromwell Currents allow the species to survive in the tropics, and they have evolved unique adaptations to survive in a tropical environment. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies them as endangered.<br>We sequenced the genome of an adult Galápagos penguin from Galápagos Islands (provided by Patricia Parker) to a depth of approximately 87x with short reads from a series of libraries with various insert sizes (250bp-20Kb). The assembled scaffolds of high quality sequences total 1.35Gb, with the contig and scaffold N50 values of 70.85Kb and 0.36Mb respectively. We identified 16390 protein-coding genes.加拉帕戈斯企鹅（Galápagos penguin）为加拉帕戈斯群岛特有物种，也是唯一在赤道以北存在繁殖群落的企鹅。洪堡洋流与克伦威尔洋流的冷水域使得该物种得以在热带环境中存活，其自身亦演化出适配热带环境的独特适应性特征。国际自然保护联盟（International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN）已将其列为濒危物种。 本研究对一只采自加拉帕戈斯群岛的成年加拉帕戈斯企鹅（由Patricia Parker提供）的基因组进行测序，通过构建插入片段长度介于250bp至20Kb的多套文库，获得了约87倍的测序深度。经组装得到的高质量支架序列总长度达1.35Gb，其重叠群N50与支架N50分别为70.85Kb和0.36Mb。本研究共鉴定得到16390个蛋白质编码基因。