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SUBMITTER: Flack N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC10925127 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Flack Nicole N Hughes Lauren L Cassens Jacob J Enriquez Maya M Gebeyehu Samrawit S Alshagawi Mohammed M Hatfield Jason J Kauffman Anna A Brown Baylor B Klaeui Caitlin C Mabrouk Islam F IF Walls Carrie C Yeater Taylor T Rivas Anne A Faulk Christopher C
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 20240228
The Przewalski's horse (<i>Equus ferus przewalskii</i>) is an endangered equid native to the steppes of central Asia. After becoming extinct in the wild, multiple conservation efforts convened to preserve the species including captive breeding programs, reintroduction and monitoring systems, protected lands, and cloning. Availability of a highly contiguous reference genome is essential to support these continued efforts. We used Oxford Nanopore sequencing to produce a scaffold-level 2.5 Gb nucle ...[more]