Genomic data of the Golden-collared Manakin (<em>Manacus vitellinus</em>).

The Golden-collared Manakin (<em>Manacus vitellinus</em> (Gould, 1843)) belongs to the Pipridae family of suboscine passseriform birds. It is commonly found in Colombia, Costa Rica and Panama. <br> These data have been produced as part of the G10K and Avian Phylogenomics Project. DNA was collected from a male obtained in Gamboa, Panama, with the sample obtained by Barney Schlinger of UCLA. We sequenced the genome to a depth of approximately 110X with short reads from a series of libraries with various insert sizes (170bp, 500bp, 800bp, 2kb, 5kb, 10kb and 20kb). <br> The assembled scaffolds of high quality sequences total 1.12Gb, with the contig and scaffold N50 values of 34kb and 2.5Mb respectively. We identified 15,285 protein-coding genes with a mean length of 18.8kb.