We present a genome assembly from an individual male Rattus norvegicus (the Norway rat; Chordata; Mammalia; Rodentia; Muridae). The genome sequence is 2.44 gigabases in span. The majority of the assembly is scaffolded into 20 chromosomal pseudomolecules, with both X and Y sex chromosomes assembled. This genome assembly, mRatBN7.2, represents the new reference genome for R. norvegicus and has been adopted by the Genome Reference Consortium.
Kerstin Howe
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2237-513X
1, Melinda Dwinell2, Mary Shimoyama2+, Craig Corton1, Emma Betteridge1, Alexander Dove1, Michael A. Quail1, Michelle Smith1, Laura Saba
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9649-1294
3, Robert W. Williams
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8924-4447
4, Hao Chen5, Anne E. Kwitek
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1024-4116
2, Shane A. McCarthy1,6, Marcela Uliano-Silva1, William Chow1, Alan Tracey
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4805-9058
1, James Torrance
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6117-8190
1, Ying Sims1, Richard Challis
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3502-1122
1, Jonathan Threlfall
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8599-4320
1, Mark Blaxter
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2861-949X
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