The genome sequence of the European golden eagle, Aquila chrysaetos chrysaetos Linnaeus 1758 [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]

We present a genome assembly from an individual female Aquila chrysaetos chrysaetos (the European golden eagle; Chordata; Aves; Accipitridae). The genome sequence is 1.23 gigabases in span. The majority of the assembly is scaffolded into 28 chromosomal pseudomolecules, including the W and Z sex chromosomes.

Dan Mead

^1,2, Rob Ogden

³, Anna Meredith^3,4, Gabriela Peniche³, Michelle Smith¹, Craig Corton¹, Karen Oliver¹, Jason Skelton¹, Emma Betteridge¹, Jale Doulcan

^1,5, Nadine Holmes⁶, Victoria Wright

⁶, Matt Loose

⁶, Michael A. Quail¹, Shane A. McCarthy

^1,7, Kerstin Howe

¹, William Chow¹, James Torrance

¹, Joanna Collins¹, Richard Challis

¹, Richard Durbin

^1,7, Mark Blaxter¹