Genomic infrastructure for cetacean research and conservation: reference genomes for eight families spanning the cetacean tree of life (original) (raw)

Additional Information:

The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research and/or publication of this article. This work was supported by grants from the NOAA National Oceanographic Partnership Program Committee and NOAA SWFSC Marine Mammal and Turtle Division, and from the Revive & Restore Catalyst Fund (to PM, OR, EJ); the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (to EJ); The Vertebrate Genomes Project; Darwin Tree of Life; Leibniz Association’s Competition Procedure (K419/2021); The LOEWECentre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics (TBG) funded by the Hessen State Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts (LOEWE/1/10/519/03/03.001(0014)/52); the NOAA Marine Mammal and Turtle Division, Southeast Fisheries Science Center and NOAA NMFS Office of Protected Resources (to PR) funded sequencing of the Rice’s whale genome, in collaboration with the VGP; The Morgridge Institute for Research; The MHC characterization of the genomes was supported by the 2024 SBS DRDF Research Fund (University of Auckland) awarded to DH and EC.

Keywords:

Reference genome, porpoise, comparative genomics, Cetacea, conservation genomics, dolphin, whale.

Creator Roles:

Brownlow, A.Writing – review and editing, Resources
Davison, N.Writing – review and editing, Resources

Authors:

Morin, P. A., Bein, B., Bortoluzzi, C., Bukhman, Y. V., Hains, T., Heimeier, D., Uliano-Silva, M., Absolon, D. E., Abueg, L., Antosiewicz-Bourget, J., Balacco, J. R., Bonde, R. K., Brajuka, N., Brownlow, A. C., Carroll, E. L., Carter, M., Collins, J., Davison, N. J., Denton, A., Fedrigo, O., Foote, A. D., Formenti, G., Gallo, G. R., Greve, C., Houck, M. L., Howard, C., Jacobsen, J. K., Jain, N., Krasheninnikova, K., Maloney, B. M., Manley, B. F., Mathers, T. C., Mccarthy, S. A., Mcgowen, M. R., Meyer, S., Mountcastle, J., Neely, B. A., O’toole, B., Pelan, S., Rosel, P. E., Rowles, T. K., Ryder, O. A., Schell, T., Sims, Y., St Leger, J., Stewart, R., Ternes, K., Tilley, T., Whelan, C., Wood, J. M. D., Hiller, M., Blaxter, M., and Jarvis, E. D.

First Published:

First published in Frontiers in Marine Science 12:1562045

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