Genomic data from Fairy penguin (<em>Eudyptula novaehollandiae</em>).

The Australian fairy penguin (also known as little blue penguin, blue penguin and little penguin) is one of the smallest penguins. It is found widely along the southern coastlines of Australia and the Otago coast of New Zealand. They have a slate-blue plumage. Recent genetic, morphological and behavioral research has demonstrated that the Australian fairy penguin is a separate species to the New Zealand little blue penguin, however this still remains controversial. Populations have recently declined, and they are considered as Least Concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), however this assessment still classifies the Australian and New Zealand species as conspecific.<br>We sequenced the genome of an adult Fairy penguin from Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia (provided by Peter Dann) to a depth of approximately 137x with short reads from a series of libraries with various insert sizes (250bp-20Kb). The assembled scaffolds of high quality sequences total 1.28Gb, with the contig and scaffold N50 values of 119.59Kb and 27.92Mb respectively. We identified 17188 protein-coding genes.

澳大利亚仙企鹅（又称小蓝企鹅、蓝企鹅、小企鹅）是体型最小的企鹅类群之一，广泛分布于澳大利亚南部沿海及新西兰奥塔哥海岸，其羽衣呈石板蓝色。近期遗传学、形态学与行为学研究证实，澳大利亚仙企鹅与新西兰小蓝企鹅为独立物种，但该结论仍存在争议。当前其种群数量呈下降趋势，尽管被国际自然保护联盟（International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN）评定为“无危”，但该评估仍将澳新两地的该类企鹅视为同一物种。我们对采自澳大利亚维多利亚州菲利普岛的一只成年仙企鹅（由Peter Dann提供）进行了全基因组测序，通过一系列插入片段长度范围为250bp至20Kb的文库获得短读长测序数据，测序深度约为137倍。经组装得到的高质量支架（scaffold）序列总长度为1.28Gb，重叠群（contig）N50与支架N50值分别为119.59Kb与27.92Mb。本研究共鉴定出17188个蛋白质编码基因。