Genome

Geospiza fortis (medium ground-finch) The medium ground finch of the Galapagos Islands Lineage: Eukaryota[13169]; Metazoa[6095]; Chordata[2857]; Craniata[2829]; Vertebrata[2829]; Euteleostomi[2799]; Archelosauria[816]; Archosauria[784]; Dinosauria[779]; Saurischia[779]; Theropoda[779]; Coelurosauria[779]; Aves[779]; Neognathae[759]; Passeriformes[271]; Thraupidae[6]; Geospiza[1]; Geospiza fortis[1]

The medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis) is a seed-eating bird endemic to the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador. It inhabits subtropical or tropical dry forests and shrubland. The medium ground finch is one of "Darwin's finches"; a group of birds that evolved over a few million years from a single ancestral species into multiple species whose beak More...sizes and shapes are specialized for using different food resources. This species has been the subject of numerous evolutionary studies and is part of a project to sequence 10,000 vertebrate genomes (G10k). Less...

Summary Submitter: Beijing Genomics Institute Assembly level:  Scaffold Assembly: GCA_000277835.1 GeoFor_1.0 scaffolds: 27,239 contigs: 95,828 N50: 30,521 L50: 9,807 BioProjects: PRJNA217051 Whole Genome Shotgun (WGS):  INSDC: AKZB00000000.1 Statistics:  total length (Mb): 1065.29  protein count: 20619  GC%: 41.7 NCBI Annotation Release:  102 Publications (limited to 20 most recent records) Comparative genomics reveals insights into avian genome evolution and adaptation. Zhang G, et al. Science 2014 Dec 12 Replicon Info Loc Type Name RefSeq INSDC Size (Mb) GC% Protein rRNA tRNA Other RNA Gene Pseudogene Un - . - 1,065.29 41.7 20,619 2 175 1,605 16,009 96 Chromosomes Click on chromosome name to open Genome Data Viewer