Elephas maximus (Asian elephant) genome, mEleMax1, alternate haplotype. Elephas maximus isolate:mEleMax1

The Indian elephant (Elephas maximus indicus) is one of the three subspecies of the Asian Elephant. It has been classified as Endangered on the IUCN red list since 1986 due to habitat loss and environmental degradation mainly caused by human activities. This is the alternate haplotype, the primary can be found under bioproject accession PRJNA850184. This assembly has been produced as part of the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP), and supported by Virpi Lummaa (Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, university of Turku, Finland), Camila Mazzoni and Larissa Souza Arantes (Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany), and by Colossal Biosciences (in collaboration with Sara Ord, Eriona Hysolli). Skin tissue was collected from a 50-year old adult male at the San Diego Zoo, California (SB-218, and GAN # 26734787; ZIMS/Species 360) and fibroblast cells were cultured by the Frozen Zoo. The sample was sequenced using the VGP 2.0 individual pipeline at the Rockefeller University Vertebrate Genome Lab, led by Olivier Fedrigo and Erich D. Jarvis and genome was assembled by Diego De Panis. Manual curation of chromosomes and other genomic features was conducted by Nadolina Brajuka and led by Giulio Formenti.