Western wild mouse assembly and gene annotation

The Algerian mouse, or western Mediterranean mouse (Mus spretus) is a wild species of mouse native to open habitats around the western Mediterranean. It is known to interbreed with Mus musculus, and some hybrids have inherited M. spretus' resistance to warfarin.

Assembly

The assembly for reference was generated as part of The Mouse Genomes Project , additional strains can be found in Ensembl.

The assembly is on the chromosome level, consisting of 733 contigs assembled into 139 scaffolds. The N50 size is the length such that 50% of the assembled genome lies in blocks of the N50 size or longer. The N50 length for the contigs is 10023970 while the scaffold N50 is 129120363.

Other assemblies

• SPRET_EiJ_v1 (Ensembl release 113)

Gene annotation

Genome annotation was generated by mapping GENCODE M30 genes and transcripts via the Ensembl Human automated annotation system, supplemented by methods from the Ensembl vertebrate annotation pipeline. Mapped GENCODE structures served as the primary evidence with gaps in the annotations filled using aligned short-read transcriptomic data and full-length transcripts derived from PacBio IsoSeq long-read data.

In accordance with the Fort Lauderdale Agreement, please check the publication status of the genome/assembly before publishing any genome-wide analyses using these data.

More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.