Apteryx mantelli (North Island brown kiwi) genome, bAptMan1, haplotype 1. Apteryx mantelli isolate:bAptMan1

The North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) is a species of kiwi that is widespread in the northern two-thirds of the North Island of New Zealand. It is the most common kiwi. It holds the world's record for laying the largest eggs relative to its body size (modified from Wikipedia entry). This sample of male was collected by the veterinary team at the Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, and coordinated by Klaus-Peter Koepfli to be used to generate a high-quality reference genome for the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP). Sequencing and genome assembly were conducted at the Vertebrate Genomes Lab (VGL) at the Rockefeller University, led by Erich D. Jarvis, Giulio Formenti, and Jennifer Balacco.

北岛褐几维鸟（Apteryx mantelli）是几维鸟的一个物种，广泛分布于新西兰北岛北部三分之二的区域，是最为常见的几维鸟。该物种拥有相对于自身体型而言产下最大鸟蛋的世界纪录（内容改编自维基百科词条）。该雄性样本由史密森尼国家动物园与保护生物学研究所的兽医团队采集，并由克劳斯-彼得·克普夫利（Klaus-Peter Koepfli）协调，用于为脊椎动物基因组计划（Vertebrate Genomes Project, VGP）构建高质量参考基因组。测序与基因组组装工作由洛克菲勒大学脊椎基因组实验室（Vertebrate Genomes Lab, VGL）完成，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。