Grus americana (whooping crane) genome, bGruAme2, sequence data

The whooping crane (Grus americana) is the tallest North American bird, named for its whooping sound. It is an endangered species. Along with the sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis), it is one of only two crane species native to North America (from Wikipedia entry). This sample (bGruAme2) is from the mother of a trio of samples, where it and its male mate (bGruAme3) were originally collected as eggs in Wood Buffalo National Park, Alberta Canada, and the child (bGruAme1) bred in captivity at the International Crane Foundation in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Blood sample collection was done by Barry Kinney Hartup at the International Crane Foundation. Use of the samples were coordinated by Hernan Eduardo Morales Villegas and Tom Gilbert in Copenhagen, Denmark, for a trio-based high-quality reference genome of both maternal and paternal haplotypes, and contributed to the Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP). Sequencing and assembly were conducted at the Vertebrate Genomes Lab (VGL) at Rockefeller University, led by Olivier Fedrigo and Erich D. Jarvis.

美洲鹤（Grus americana）是北美最高的鸟类，以其标志性的鸣叫声得名，属于濒危物种。它与沙丘鹤（Antigone canadensis）一同为仅有的两种原产于北美的鹤类（引自维基百科词条）。本次研究样本（bGruAme2）来自一组trio样本的母本个体，该母本与其雄性配偶（bGruAme3）最初于加拿大阿尔伯塔省伍德布法罗国家公园以卵的形式被采集，其子代个体（bGruAme1）则在威斯康星州巴拉布沃的国际鹤类基金会人工繁育。血液样本采集工作由巴里·金尼·哈特普（Barry Kinney Hartup）在国际鹤类基金会完成。样本的使用协调由丹麦哥本哈根的埃尔南·爱德华多·莫拉莱斯·维莱加斯（Hernan Eduardo Morales Villegas）与汤姆·吉尔伯特（Tom Gilbert）负责，用于构建基于trio策略的母本与父本单倍型高质量参考基因组，并贡献至脊椎动物基因组计划（Vertebrate Genomes Project, VGP）。测序与组装工作由洛克菲勒大学脊椎动物基因组实验室（Vertebrate Genomes Lab, VGL）实施，由奥利维耶·费德里戈（Olivier Fedrigo）与埃里希·D·贾维斯（Erich D. Jarvis）主导。