The genome sequence of Molossus alvarezi González-Ruiz, Ramírez-Pulido and Arroyo-Cabrales, 2011 (Chiroptera, Molossidae)

Nancy B Simmons; Melissa R Ingala; Myrtani Pieri; Brian P O'Toole; Jonathan L Gray; Philip Philge; Thomas L Volkert; Ning Zhang; Linelle Abueg; Nadolina Brajuka; Erich Jarvis; Giulio Formenti; Kirsty McCaffrey; Meike Mai; Emma C Teeling; Sonja C Vernes; Bat Biology Foundation; Bat1K Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.22726.1

The genome sequence of Molossus alvarezi González-Ruiz, Ramírez-Pulido and Arroyo-Cabrales, 2011 (Chiroptera, Molossidae)

Wellcome Open Res. 2024 Sep 12:9:522. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.22726.1. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Nancy B Simmons¹, Melissa R Ingala^{1

2}, Myrtani Pieri³, Brian P O'Toole⁴, Jonathan L Gray⁴, Philip Philge⁴, Thomas L Volkert⁴, Ning Zhang⁴, Linelle Abueg⁵, Nadolina Brajuka⁵, Erich Jarvis⁵, Giulio Formenti⁵, Kirsty McCaffrey⁵, Meike Mai⁶, Emma C Teeling^{7

8}, Sonja C Vernes^{6

9}; Bat Biology Foundation; Bat1K Consortium

Affiliations

¹ Department of Mammalogy, Division of Vertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024, USA.
² Fairleigh Dickinson University Department of Biological Sciences, Madison, NJ, 07940, USA.
³ Department of Life Sciences, School of Life and Health Sciences, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus.
⁴ Paratus Sciences, New York, USA.
⁵ Vertebrate Genome Lab, The Rockefeller University, New York, USA.
⁶ University of St Andrews School of Biology, St Andrews, Scotland, UK.
⁷ University College Dublin School of Biology and Environmental Science, Dublin, Ireland.
⁸ Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA, UK.
⁹ Neurogenetics of Vocal Communication Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual female Molossus alvarezi (Chordata; Mammalia; Chiroptera; Molossidae). The genome sequence is 2.490 Gb in span. The majority of the assembly is scaffolded into 24 chromosomal pseudomolecules, with the X sex chromosomes assembled.

Keywords: Bat1K; Molossus alvarezi; chromosomal; genome sequence.

Grants and funding

SCV was supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, (MR/T021985/1), an ERC Consolidator Grant (101001702; BATSPEAK), and a Max Planck Research Group awarded by the Max Planck Society). MRI was supported by a Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. ECT is a Wellcome collaborator and the Irish Research Council Laureate Award IRCLA/2017/58 and Science Foundation Ireland Future Frontiers 19/FFP/6790. Fieldwork by NBS was supported by the Taxonomic Mammalogy Fund of the American Museum of Natural History. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.