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SUBMITTER: Salter JF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6893191 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Salter Jessie F JF Johnson Oscar O Stafford Norman J NJ Herrin William F WF Schilling Darren D Cedotal Cody C Brumfield Robb T RT Faircloth Brant C BC
G3 (Bethesda, Md.) 20191203 12
Northern bobwhites (<i>Colinus virginianus</i>) are small quails in the New World Quail family (Odontophoridae) and are one of the most phenotypically diverse avian species. Despite extensive research on bobwhite ecology, genomic studies investigating the evolution of phenotypic diversity in this species are lacking. Here, we present a new, highly contiguous assembly for bobwhites using tissue samples from a vouchered, wild, female bird collected in Louisiana. By performing a <i>de novo</i> asse ...[more]