Sturnira parvidens (little yellow-shouldered bat) genome, mStuPar1, sequence data

The little yellow-shouldered Mesoamerican bat (Sturnira parvidens) is a species of leaf-nosed bat found in Mexico and Central America. The bat is most commonly found in the sub-canopy or understory of tropical forests, close to water or agricultural land. It is more common in recently formed secondary forests, and thus can serve as a useful indicator of forest disturbance (from Wikipedia entry). This sample of a male individual found in Orange Walk, Lamanai, Belize was procured by Nancy Simmons to generate a high-quality reference genome for Bat1K and the Bat Biology Foundation. Sequencing was conducted at Paratus Sciences and genome assembly was conducted at the Vertebrate Genome Lab (VGL) at the Rockefeller University, led by Erich D. Jarvis, Giulio Formenti, and Jennifer Balacco.

黄肩中美叶口蝠（Sturnira parvidens）是分布于墨西哥与中美洲的叶口蝠科物种。该蝙蝠最常栖息于热带森林的冠层下层或林下生境，紧邻水源或农用地周边。其在新近形成的次生林中种群密度更高，因此可作为森林受干扰状况的有效指示物种（引自维基百科条目）。此次研究的样本为采集自伯利兹拉马奈奥兰治沃克的雄性个体，由南希·西蒙斯（Nancy Simmons）获取，旨在为Bat1K计划与蝙蝠生物学基金会构建高质量参考基因组。测序工作由Paratus Sciences公司完成，基因组组装则由洛克菲勒大学脊椎动物基因组实验室（Vertebrate Genome Lab, VGL）承担，该项目由埃里希·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）牵头负责。