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. 2021 May 18:6:118.
doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16854.1. eCollection 2021.

The genome sequence of the Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus Berkenhout 1769

Kerstin Howe  1 , Melinda Dwinell  2 , Mary Shimoyama  2 , Craig Corton  1 , Emma Betteridge  1 , Alexander Dove  1 , Michael A Quail  1 , Michelle Smith  1 , Laura Saba  3 , Robert W Williams  4 , Hao Chen  5 , Anne E Kwitek  2 , Shane A McCarthy  1   6 , Marcela Uliano-Silva  1 , William Chow  1 , Alan Tracey  1 , James Torrance  1 , Ying Sims  1 , Richard Challis  1 , Jonathan Threlfall  1 , Mark Blaxter  1
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The genome sequence of the Norway rat, Rattus norvegicus Berkenhout 1769

Kerstin Howe et al. Wellcome Open Res. .

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Rattus norvegicus (the Norway rat; Chordata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Muridae). The genome sequence is 2.44 gigabases in span. The majority of the assembly is scaffolded into 20 chromosomal pseudomolecules, with both X and Y sex chromosomes assembled. This genome assembly, mRatBN7.2, represents the new reference genome for R. norvegicus and has been adopted by the Genome Reference Consortium.

Keywords: Norway rat; Rattus norvegicus; chromosomal; genome sequence; reference genome.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: J. Threlfall was an employee of F1000Research up until January 2021.

Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.. Genome assembly of Rattus norvegicus, mRatBN7.2: metrics.
The BlobToolKit Snailplot shows N50 metrics and BUSCO gene completeness. An interactive version of this figure is available at https://blobtoolkit.genomehubs.org/view/Rattus%20norvegicus/dataset/JACYVU01/snail.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.. Genome assembly of Rattus norvegicus, mRatBN7.2: GC coverage.
BlobToolKit GC-coverage plot. An interactive version of this figure is available at https://blobtoolkit.genomehubs.org/view/Rattus%20norvegicus/dataset/JACYVU01/blob?plotShape=circle.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.. Genome assembly of Rattus norvegicus, mRatBN7.2: cumulative sequence.
BlobToolKit cumulative sequence plot. An interactive version of this figure is available at https://blobtoolkit.genomehubs.org/view/Rattus%20norvegicus/dataset/JACYVU01/cumulative.
Figure 4.
Figure 4.. Genome assembly of Rattus noevegicus, mRatBN7.2: Hi-C contact map.
Hi-C contact map of the mRatBN7.2 assembly, visualised in HiGlass.
See this image and copyright information in PMC

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