Struthio camelus (North African ostrich) genome, bStrCam1, haplotype 1. Struthio camelus isolate:bStrCam1

The common ostrich (Struthio camelus), or simply ostrich, is a species of flightless bird native to certain large areas of Africa. It is one of two extant species of ostriches, the only living members of the genus Struthio in the ratite order of birds. The North African ostrich (Struthio camelus camelus) is the nominate subspecies of the common ostrich from West and North Africa. It has the largest average size among the subspecies of ostriches, making it the largest living bird (from Wikipedia entries). The cells of this sample are embryonic fibroblasts derived from an HH28 embryo cultured up to 14 days in vitro. The embryo came from eggs shipped from Roaming Acres farm in Lafayette Township, New Jersey. The farm raises ostriches that are a non-pedigreed hybrid of the "blue-necked" Somali ostrich (Struthio molybdophanes) and the "red-necked" North African sub-species of the common ostrich (Struthio camelus camelus). The sample was procured by Anna Keyte and Matthew Biegler to generate a high-quality reference genome for the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP), and the cells were incubated at the Rockefeller University. 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.

普通鸵鸟（Struthio camelus，下文简称鸵鸟）是一种原产于非洲部分广袤区域的不会飞行的鸟类。它是现存的两种鸵鸟物种之一，亦是鸵鸟属（Struthio）在平胸鸟目（ratite order）中仅存的现生类群。其中，北非鸵鸟（Struthio camelus camelus）是分布于西非与北非的普通鸵鸟指名亚种，其平均体型为所有鸵鸟亚种之最，因此也是现存体型最大的鸟类（以上内容源自维基百科词条）。
本次样本的细胞为胚胎成纤维细胞，源自HH28期胚胎，体外培养时长可达14天。该胚胎来自新泽西州拉斐特镇区漫游农场（Roaming Acres farm）寄送的鸵鸟蛋。该农场饲养的鸵鸟为“蓝颈”索马里鸵鸟（Struthio molybdophanes）与“红颈”普通鸵鸟北非亚种（Struthio camelus camelus）的无谱系杂交后代。
该样本由安娜·基特（Anna Keyte）与马修·比格勒（Matthew Biegler）采集，旨在为脊椎动物基因组计划（Vertebrate Genomes Project, VGP）构建高质量参考基因组。相关细胞在洛克菲勒大学（Rockefeller University）完成培养。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 Genome Lab, VGL）开展，由埃里希·D·贾维斯（Erich D. Jarvis）、朱利奥·福门蒂（Giulio Formenti）与珍妮弗·巴拉科（Jennifer Balacco）主导。