Thomomys bottae (Botta's pocket gopher) genome, mThoBot2, sequence data

Botta's pocket gopher (Thomomys bottae) is native to western North America. Botta's pocket gopher is highly adaptable, burrowing into a very diverse array of soils from loose sands to tightly packed clays, and from arid deserts to high altitude meadows. This sample is from a wild caught male in California, USA, collected by James L. Paton of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and provided by Chris Conroy of the same museum, and used 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), coordinated by Olivier Fedrigo and Erich D. Jarvis.

博塔囊鼠（Thomomys bottae）原产于北美西部。该物种适应性极强，可在多样的土壤类型中挖掘洞穴，栖息生境涵盖干旱荒漠至高海拔草甸，可利用的土壤从松散沙土到紧实黏土不等。本样本源自美国加利福尼亚州的一只野生雄性博塔囊鼠，由脊椎动物博物馆（Museum of Vertebrate Zoology）的詹姆斯·L·佩顿（James L. Paton）采集，该馆的克里斯·康罗伊（Chris Conroy）提供此样本，并用于生成脊椎动物基因组计划（Vertebrate Genomes Project, VGP）的高质量参考基因组。测序及基因组组装工作在脊椎动物基因组实验室（Vertebrate Genome Lab, VGL）完成，由奥利维耶·费德里戈（Olivier Fedrigo）与埃里希·D·贾维斯（Erich D. Jarvis）统筹协调。