High-Quality Genome Assembly of the White King Pigeon for Genetic Reference of Chinese Market Pigeon Breeds (opens in new tab)

This study was conducted to generate a high-quality chromosome-level genome assembly of a female White King pigeon using a combination of Illumina short pair-end reads; HiFi reads and Hi-C technologies. Using the reference genome,Over 22,685,232 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and 2,466,122 insertion-deletions (InDels) were identified. The genome sequence with a total length of 1.09 Gb was located on 29 chromosomes, accounting for 98.59%, while the number of corresponding sequences was...