European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)
In contrast to what you may have learned from Bugs Bunny cartoons, root vegetables are not a natural part of a rabbit's diet: carrots are high in sugar and can only be fed to rabbits occasionally and in small amounts. Read more about European rabbits in Wikipedia.
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Chromosome-length genome assembly
Download the OryCun2.0_HiC.fasta.gz file containing the chromosome-length (2n=44) assembly of the European rabbit genome. All modifications with respect to the draft (see below) are annotated in the OryCun2.0_HiC.assembly file. Some basic stats associated with the new reference, OryCun2.0_HiC, are listed below. The full data release can be explored here. We thanks Jongwon Kim for help with this assembly.
Contig length (bp) | Number of contigs | Contig N50 (bp) | Longest contig (bp) |
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2,603,995,593 | 84,149 | 64,634 | 561,788 |
Scaffold length (bp) | Number of scaffolds | Scaffold N50 (bp) | Longest scaffold (bp) |
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2,672,010,907 | 1,870 | 135,079,528 | 229,316,472 |
Draft
The chromosome-length genome assembly is based on the draft assembly OryCun2.0 (GCF_000003625.3), credited below.
Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin, Manuel Garber, Or Zuk, Michael F. Lin, Brian J. Parker, Stefan Washietl, Pouya Kheradpour, et al. 2011. "A High-Resolution Map of Human Evolutionary Constraint Using 29 Mammals." Nature 478 (7370): 476-82. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10530.
Method
3D Assembly was performed using 3D-DNA pipeline (Dudchenko et al., Science, 2017). The genome was reviewed using Juicebox Assembly Tools (Dudchenko et al., bioRxiv, 2018). See Methods for more information.
Hi-C sample
The blood sample for in situ Hi-C preparation was donated by a female individual, and provided to us by BioChemed. We thank SeaWorld, Houston Zoo, Cosley Zoo and BioChemed Sevices for additional european rabbit samples.
Hi-C Contact maps
Hi-C data was aligned to the draft reference using Juicer (Durand, Shamim et al., Cell Systems, 2016), and contact maps visualizing the alignments with respect to the draft and the new reference were built using 3D-DNA (Dudchenko et al., Science, 2017). The contact maps can be explored below via Juicebox.js interactive tool (Robinson et al., Cell Systems, 2018). (Please note that the interactive figures are scaled 1:2.) To explore the assembly in greater detail, please download the .hic and .assembly files from the data release folder and use Juicebox Assembly Tools (Dudchenko et al., bioRxiv, 2018).
References
If you use this genome assembly in your research, please check that the conditions of use associated with the draft permit it, and acknowledge the following work.
Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin, Manuel Garber, Or Zuk, Michael F. Lin, Brian J. Parker, Stefan Washietl, Pouya Kheradpour, et al. 2011. "A High-Resolution Map of Human Evolutionary Constraint Using 29 Mammals." Nature 478 (7370): 476-82. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10530.
Dudchenko, O., Batra, S.S., Omer, A.D., Nyquist, S.K., Hoeger, M., Durand, N.C., Shamim, M.S., Machol, I., Lander, E.S., Aiden, A.P., Aiden, E.L., 2017. De novo assembly of the Aedes aegypti genome using Hi-C yields chromosome-length scaffolds. Science 356, 92–95. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal3327.
Dudchenko, O., Shamim, M.S., Batra, S., Durand, N.C., Musial, N.T., Mostofa, R., Pham, M., Hilaire, B.G.S., Yao, W., Stamenova, E., Hoeger, M., Nyquist, S.K., Korchina, V., Pletch, K., Flanagan, J.P., Tomaszewicz, A., McAloose, D., Estrada, C.P., Novak, B.J., Omer, A.D., Aiden, E.L., 2018. The Juicebox Assembly Tools module facilitates de novo assembly of mammalian genomes with chromosome-length scaffolds for under $1000. bioRxiv 254797. https://doi.org/10.1101/254797.
Disclaimer
This is a work in progress. If you notice any discrepancies in the map or have data that confirms or contradicts the suggested reference, please email us at thednazoo@gmail.com or leave a comment on the Forum.