The genome sequence of the particolored bat, Vespertilio murinus Linnaeus, 1758

Bob Vandendriessche; An Martel; Meike Mai; Emma C Teeling; Sonja C Vernes; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.22606.1

The genome sequence of the particolored bat, Vespertilio murinus Linnaeus, 1758

Wellcome Open Res. 2024 Jul 26:9:403. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.22606.1. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Bob Vandendriessche¹, An Martel², Meike Mai³, Emma C Teeling^{4

5}, Sonja C Vernes³; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Management, Samples and Laboratory team; Wellcome Sanger Institute Scientific Operations: Sequencing Operations; Wellcome Sanger Institute Tree of Life Core Informatics team; Tree of Life Core Informatics collective; Darwin Tree of Life Consortium

Affiliations

¹ Bat Working Group Natuurpunt Studie vzw, Mechelen, Belgium.
² Wildlife Health Ghent, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Merelbeke, Belgium.
³ School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland, UK.
⁴ University College Dublin, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland.
⁵ Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, England, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Vespertilio murinus (the particolored bat; Chordata; Mammalia; Chiroptera; Vespertilionidae). The genome sequence is 1,925.6 megabases in span. Most of the assembly is scaffolded into 20 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the X and Y sex chromosomes. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled and is 16.96 kilobases in length.

Keywords: Chiroptera; Vespertilio murinus; chromosomal; genome sequence; particolored bat.

Grants and funding

This work was supported by Wellcome through core funding to the Wellcome Sanger Institute [206194, https://doi.org/10.35802/206194] and the Darwin Tree of Life Discretionary Award [218328, https://doi.org/10.35802/218328 ]. SCV was supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (MR/T021985/1) and an ERC Consolidator Grant (101001702; BATSPEAK). ECT is supported by Irish Research Council Laureate Award IRCLA/2017/58 and Science Foundation Ireland Future Frontiers 19/FFP/6790.