Agelaius phoeniceus (red-winged blackbird) genome, bAgePho1, sequence data

The red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) is a passerine bird of the family Icteridae found in most of North America and much of Central America. It breeds from Alaska and Newfoundland south to Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, Mexico, and Guatemala, with isolated populations in western El Salvador, northwestern Honduras, and northwestern Costa Rica (from Wikipedia entry). This sample of a female individual was procured by Melanie Couture and Jean-Nicolas Audet at the Rockefeller University Field Research Center in Millbrook, New York, for a vocal learning study and to generate a high-quality reference genome for the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP). Sequencing and genome assembly were conducted at the Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL) at the Rockefeller University, led by Erich D. Jarvis, Giulio Formenti, and Jennifer Balacco.红翅黑鹂（Agelaius phoeniceus）为拟鹂科（Icteridae）雀形目鸟类，广泛分布于北美大部分区域及中美洲多数地区。其繁殖范围北至阿拉斯加与纽芬兰，南抵佛罗里达、墨西哥湾沿岸、墨西哥及危地马拉，另在萨尔瓦多西部、洪都拉斯西北部与哥斯达黎加西北部存在孤立种群（源自维基百科词条）。本研究的雌性个体样本由梅兰妮·库蒂尔（Melanie Couture）与让-尼古拉·奥迪（Jean-Nicolas Audet）采自纽约州米尔布鲁克的洛克菲勒大学野外研究中心，采集目的为开展鸣唱学习研究，并为脊椎动物基因组计划（Vertebrate Genomes Project, VGP）构建高质量参考基因组。测序及基因组组装工作由洛克菲勒大学脊椎动物基因组实验室（Vertebrate Genome Lab, VGL）完成，项目负责人为埃里希·D·贾维斯（Erich D. Jarvis）、朱利奥·福尔门蒂（Giulio Formenti）与珍妮弗·巴拉科（Jennifer Balacco）。