The genome sequence of the European water vole, Arvicola amphibius Linnaeus 1758

Angus I Carpenter; Michelle Smith; Craig Corton; Karen Oliver; Jason Skelton; Emma Betteridge; Jale Doulcan; Michael A Quail; Shane A McCarthy; Marcela Uliano Da Silva; Kerstin Howe; James Torrance; Jonathan Wood; Sarah Pelan; Ying Sims; Francesca Floriana Tricomi; Richard Challis; Jonathan Threlfall; Daniel Mead; Mark Blaxter

doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16753.1

The genome sequence of the European water vole, Arvicola amphibius Linnaeus 1758

Wellcome Open Res. 2021 Jun 24:6:162. doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16753.1. eCollection 2021.

Authors

Angus I Carpenter¹, Michelle Smith², Craig Corton², Karen Oliver², Jason Skelton², Emma Betteridge², Jale Doulcan^{2

3}, Michael A Quail², Shane A McCarthy^{2

4}, Marcela Uliano Da Silva², Kerstin Howe², James Torrance², Jonathan Wood², Sarah Pelan², Ying Sims², Francesca Floriana Tricomi⁵, Richard Challis², Jonathan Threlfall², Daniel Mead^{2

6}, Mark Blaxter²

Affiliations

¹ Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, NG1 4FQ, UK.
² Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK.
³ Achilles Therapeutics Plc, London, W6 8PW, UK.
⁴ Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 3EH, UK.
⁵ EMBL-EBI, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SD, UK.
⁶ Owlstone Medical, Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge, CB4 0GJ, UK.

Abstract

We present a genome assembly from an individual male Arvicola amphibius (the European water vole; Chordata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Cricetidae). The genome sequence is 2.30 gigabases in span. The majority of the assembly is scaffolded into 18 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the X sex chromosome. Gene annotation of this assembly on Ensembl has identified 21,394 protein coding genes.

Keywords: Arvicola amphibius; European water vole; chromosomal; genome sequence.

Grants and funding

WT_/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom