TY - DATA T1 - Genomic data of the Ostrich (Struthio camelus australis) AU - Zhang, G AU - Li, B AU - Li, C AU - Gilbert, M.T.P. AU - Ryder, O AU - Jarvis, E.D. AU - Consortium, The Avian Genome AU - Wang, J DO - 10.5524/101013 UR - http://gigadb.org/dataset/101013 AB - The Southern Ostrich (Struthio camelus australis (Gurney, 1868)) is a sub-species of The Common Ostrich (Struthio camelus) and found in southern Africa, south of the Zambezi and Cunene rivers. It is a flightless bird native to Africa and the only living member of the genus, Struthio. The Ostrich is farmed throughout the world for its meat, feathers and leather. These data have been produced as part of the G10K and Avian Phylogenomics Project. DNA was collected from a female at the San Diego Zoo in California by Oliver Ryder, of an animal originally from Botswana, Africa (ISIS ID: 202443). We sequenced the 2.16Gb genome to a depth of approximately 85X with short reads from a series of libraries with various insert sizes (170bp, 500bp, 800bp, 2kb, 5kb, 10kb and 20kb). The assembled scaffolds of high quality sequences total 1.23Gb, with the contig and scaffold N50 values of 29kb and 3.5Mbrespectively. We identified 16,178 protein-coding genes with a mean length of 19.5kb. KW - Genomic PY - 2014 PB - GigaScience Database LA - en ER -