Chlamydotis macqueenii (MacQueen's bustard) genome, bChlMac2, sequence data

MacQueen's bustard (Chlamydotis macqueenii) is a large bird in the bustard family, renowned for its distinctive courtship display and adaptation to arid landscapes. It is native to the desert and steppe regions of Asia, west from the Sinai Peninsula extending across Kazakhstan east to Mongolia. This sample (bChlMac2) is from a male, bred at the Rawdat Al Faras Houbara Breeding Center, in Qatar. The sample was part of a trio (offspring bChlMac1 and female bChlMac3). These samples were collected and coordinated by Farooq Omar Al-Ajli (Katara Biodiversity Genomes Program), to create trio-based high-quality assemblies of the maternal and paternal haplotypes for the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) and Qatar Biodiversity Genomes Project (QBGP). Sequencing was done at the Vertebrate Genomes Lab (VGL) at Rockefeller University, led by Olivier Fedrigo and Erich D. Jarvis. Genome assembly was conducted at Sidra Medicine by Farooq Omar Al-Ajli and Khalid A. Fakhro in collaboration with VGL.

波斑鸨（MacQueen's bustard, Chlamydotis macqueenii）是鸨科大型鸟类，以其独特的求偶展示行为与对干旱生境的适应性著称。该物种原生分布于亚洲的荒漠与草原区域，西起西奈半岛，横贯哈萨克斯坦，东至蒙古国。本次研究的样本（编号bChlMac2）取自一只雄性个体，繁育于卡塔尔的拉瓦特阿尔法拉斯侯巴拉鸨繁育中心（Rawdat Al Faras Houbara Breeding Center）。该样本属于一个三家族样本组（包含子代样本bChlMac1与雌性样本bChlMac3）。上述样本由法鲁克·奥马尔·阿杰利（Farooq Omar Al-Ajli）牵头卡塔拉生物多样性基因组计划（Katara Biodiversity Genomes Program）完成收集与统筹工作，旨在为脊椎动物基因组计划（Vertebrate Genomes Project, VGP）与卡塔尔生物多样性基因组计划（Qatar Biodiversity Genomes Project, QBGP）构建基于三家族的亲本单倍型高质量基因组组装。测序工作在洛克菲勒大学脊椎动物基因组实验室（Vertebrate Genomes Lab, VGL）开展，由奥利维耶·费德里戈（Olivier Fedrigo）与埃里希·D·贾维斯（Erich D. Jarvis）主导。基因组组装工作由西德拉医学中心（Sidra Medicine）的法鲁克·奥马尔·阿杰利与哈立德·A·法赫罗（Khalid A. Fakhro）联合VGL共同完成。